From a5e3c4db598a4883652ad4f980444af61366c17a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xavier Robin <xavalias-github@xavier.robin.name>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2023 09:14:02 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Convert response to string before returning

This prevents a TypeError: must be str, not bytes
---
 python/fasta.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/python/fasta.py b/python/fasta.py
index 989e5e2b..48b5c8fe 100644
--- a/python/fasta.py
+++ b/python/fasta.py
@@ -101,7 +101,8 @@ def restRequest(url):
         reqH.close()
     # Errors are indicated by HTTP status codes.
     except HTTPError as ex:
-        result = requests.get(url).content
+        resp = requests.get(url).content
+        result = unicode(resp, u'utf-8')
     printDebugMessage(u'restRequest', u'End', 11)
     return result