I am using hg-git with Python 3.7.3, on Windows. I have an `authors` file referred to by `hgrc` and got the following error when performing `hg push`: ``` File "C:\Python37x64\lib\site-packages\mercurial\commands.py", line 5778, in push opargs=opargs, File "D:/dev/OSS/hg-git\hggit\util.py", line 63, in inner return f(*args, **kwargs) File "D:/dev/OSS/hg-git\hggit\__init__.py", line 585, in exchangepush pushop.cgresult = repo.githandler.push(remote.path, revs, force) File "C:\Python37x64\lib\site-packages\mercurial\util.py", line 1762, in __get__ result = self.func(obj) File "D:/dev/OSS/hg-git\hggit\hgrepo.py", line 46, in githandler return GitHandler(self, self.ui) File "D:/dev/OSS/hg-git\hggit\git_handler.py", line 145, in __init__ self.init_author_file() File "D:/dev/OSS/hg-git\hggit\git_handler.py", line 206, in init_author_file if not line or line.startswith(b'#'): TypeError: startswith first arg must be str or a tuple of str, not bytes ``` I changed: ```py with open(self.repo.wvfs.join(authors_path)) as f: ``` from https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/hg-git/-/blob/5de9567da3791c310e6dc5e20231dafe309c51ad/hggit/git_handler.py#L203 to ```py with open(self.repo.wvfs.join(authors_path), "rb") as f: ``` and it worked.