From: Cory Benfield <lukasaoz@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 09:28:26 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Avoid unnecessary encode/decode cycles.
X-Git-Tag: v2.4.0~40^2
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2b8353d3b3e533945bb82d6510ed2dfb15663045;p=services%2Fpython-requests.git

Avoid unnecessary encode/decode cycles.
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diff --git a/requests/auth.py b/requests/auth.py
index 84cd9c8..9b6426d 100644
--- a/requests/auth.py
+++ b/requests/auth.py
@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ CONTENT_TYPE_MULTI_PART = 'multipart/form-data'
 def _basic_auth_str(username, password):
     """Returns a Basic Auth string."""
 
-    authstr = 'Basic ' + b64encode(
-        ('%s:%s' % (username, password)).encode('latin1')
-    ).strip()
+    authstr = 'Basic ' + to_native_string(
+        b64encode(('%s:%s' % (username, password)).encode('latin1')).strip()
+    )
 
-    return to_native_string(authstr, encoding='latin1')
+    return authstr
 
 
 class AuthBase(object):