From 9cce7a1da367e53eacae59b28ec3483adeaf9202 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luke Campagnola <luke.campagnola@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 08:06:56 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] convert to string for py3

---
 tools/setupHelpers.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/setupHelpers.py b/tools/setupHelpers.py
index 22361df9..348f0d93 100644
--- a/tools/setupHelpers.py
+++ b/tools/setupHelpers.py
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ def getGitVersion(tagPrefix):
         #branch = getGitBranch()
         #gitVersion = gitVersion + "-%s-%s" % (branch, head[:10])
         
-    gitVersion = check_output(['git', 'describe', '--tags']).strip()
+    gitVersion = check_output(['git', 'describe', '--tags']).strip().decode('utf-8')
     
     # any uncommitted modifications?
     modified = False