startswith first arg must be bytes or a tuple of bytes, not str

[RalphCorderoy]

rss2email-wking 3.9-1 on Arch Linux. Running http://www.godbolt.org/feed gives

error while running time limited function: startswith first arg must be bytes or a tuple of bytes, not str
cause: startswith first arg must be bytes or a tuple of bytes, not str

Here's the current content of the feed. godbolt-feed.rss.txt

[dme]

In the feedparser _FeedParserMixin class pop function, code was added to ensure that pieces is a string "for Python 3". Unfortunately this happens too late, as the chunk of code above that removes a div wrapper already assumes strings. Moving the code that ensures pieces is a string above the div removing loop fixes this for me.

(I will go over to the feedparser project and raise an issue there.)

[dme]

Pull request for feedparser is here: https://github.com/kurtmckee/feedparser/pull/140

[Ekleog]

Hello,

This repository has been deprecated for a few years now, and has been replaced by https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email .

If this issue is still relevant to you, and not fixed with v3.12.2, could you please reopen the issue there?

Cheers, Leo

[RalphCorderoy]

@dme's above fix to feedparser stopped the error. Closing issue.