scripts/lib/bsp/help.py: Fixed pager for yocto-bsp help

Python3 requires strings to be encoded as bytes before sending them through a subprocess pipe. The help.py file is not considering this and fails when issuing paged help commands. This patch adds this encoding to solve the problem.

[YOCTO #9868]

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/scripts/lib/bsp/help.py b/scripts/lib/bsp/help.py
index 85a09dd29bb65252f363e4e1dda7e16025e4ee9b..311c5e418952cc6014c09dd8088141d8f4f3461f 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/lib/bsp/help.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/bsp/help.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ def display_help(subcommand, subcommands):
 
     help = subcommands.get(subcommand, subcommand_error)[2]
     pager = subprocess.Popen('less', stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
-    pager.communicate(help)
+    pager.communicate(bytes(help, 'UTF-8'))
 
     return True