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[Sophie Kunze <sk62tafy AT studserv.uni-leipzig.de>]

Hi,

I recently used the Python scripts supplied on cat.eduroam.org for "Universität Leipzig" to configure eduroam on my Arch Linux laptop.

Although they did work out in the end, I ran into errors on my first attempt of running the scripts. Both scripts use the Popen.communicate() method to receive data from subprocesses, for example in the following line:
output = out.strip().decode('utf-8')
Since strip() is used on the variable out, it is obvious that out is of string type. However, decode(...) should not be used on strings, only on byte objects. After I removed the .decode('utf-8') on all occurences of this construction in the file, it worked out without any further errors.

Best regards

Sophie Kunze