Described API (&tests) broken on python3

[mgorny]

When using python3, the documented API does not work:

In [1]: import timelib

In [2]: timelib.strtotime('12:55')
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-2-ac895873636a> in <module>()
----> 1 timelib.strtotime('12:55')

timelib.pyx in timelib.strtotime (timelib.c:1215)()

TypeError: expected bytes, str found

The issue can be worked around by using byte input but I don't think that's the intended (or friendly) way of doing it:

In [3]: timelib.strtotime(b'12:55')
Out[3]: 1495025700

Plus, this breaks the tests.

[guysoft]

Same here.
Does anyone know how to fix this?

[guysoft]

Another workaround is to do timelib.strtotime('12:55'.encode('utf-8'))

so:

if sys.version_info >= (3,0):
    timelib.strtotime('12:55'.encode('utf-8'))
else:
    timelib.strtotime('12:55')