Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] Cast byte strings to unicode strings in python3

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

         cmd += [ key ]
         s = read_pipe(cmd, ignore_error=True)
         _gitConfig[key] = s.strip()
-    return _gitConfig[key]
+    return ustring(_gitConfig[key])

Likewise.  I'd expect, if we were to declare that our internal
strings are all unicode in Python 3, we'd be using a thin wrapper of
read_pipe() that yields a unicode string, so 's' would not be a
bytestring, and s.strip() would not be either.

Oops, I did not even realize read_pipe() is already our own.  So
there is no need to any wrapper around it, if we were to declare
that all strings we use are unicode under Python 3---we just need
to have the ustring() call (after giviing the helper a better name)
directly inside read_pipe() function.