GitHub pull request #3486 of commit f75fb72932af6f551afb52db983847eff1808b2f, no merge conflicts.sha1origin/pr/3486/mergeghprbActualCommitf75fb72932af6f551afb52db983847eff1808b2fghprbActualCommitAuthorghprbActualCommitAuthorEmailghprbAuthorRepoGitUrlhttps://github.com/spenczar/bcc.gitghprbTriggerAuthorghprbTriggerAuthorEmailghprbTriggerAuthorLoginyonghong-songghprbTriggerAuthorLoginMention@yonghong-songghprbPullId3486ghprbTargetBranchmasterghprbSourceBranchusdt_string_encodingGIT_BRANCHusdt_string_encodingghprbPullAuthorEmailswnelson@uw.edughprbPullAuthorLoginspenczarghprbPullAuthorLoginMention@spenczarghprbPullDescriptionGitHub pull request #3486 of commit f75fb72932af6f551afb52db983847eff1808b2f, no merge conflicts.ghprbPullTitleDecode bytes when formatting them as stringsghprbPullLinkhttps://github.com/iovisor/bcc/pull/3486ghprbPullLongDescriptionFixes #3478.\r\n\r\nUSDTProbe objects (and USDTProbeArguments and USDTProbeLocations) are instantiated with data that's sourced from libccc calls. That means that their attributes are bytes-typed, not string-typed.\r\n\r\nWhen a bytes-typed value is rendered into a string with Python's '%s' formatting directive, it gets a wrapped in single quotes and prefixed with b. For example, b'probe-location'. This is visually noisy, but also breaks some tool behavior which uses string-formatted values for stuff like filters.\r\n\r\nThis is only an issue in Python 3. In Python 2, the bytes type is just an alias for the string type, and so byte sequences from libcc were implicitly decoded as ASCII text.\r\n\r\nThere are probably more spots like this to be fixed, but maybe we can improve things as we see them.ghprbCommentBody[buildbot, test this please]ghprbGhRepositoryiovisor/bccghprbCredentialsId6d3daf13-69b8-48b1-9c8f-ec5353264113false<a title="Decode bytes when formatting them as strings" href="https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/pull/3486">PR #3486</a>: Decode bytes when formattin...#103013188427460664bcc-pr #10301030false10308249SUCCESS1623605372317https://buildbot.iovisor.org/jenkins/user/jmarchan/my-views/view/all/job/bcc-pr/1030/git1030https://buildbot.iovisor.org/jenkins/user/jmarchan/my-views/view/all/job/bcc-pr/label=fc25/1030/1030https://buildbot.iovisor.org/jenkins/user/jmarchan/my-views/view/all/job/bcc-pr/label=fc26/1030/1030https://buildbot.iovisor.org/jenkins/user/jmarchan/my-views/view/all/job/bcc-pr/label=fc27/1030/1030https://buildbot.iovisor.org/jenkins/user/jmarchan/my-views/view/all/job/bcc-pr/label=fc28/1030/1030https://buildbot.iovisor.org/jenkins/user/jmarchan/my-views/view/all/job/bcc-pr/label=ubuntu1604/1030/1030https://buildbot.iovisor.org/jenkins/user/jmarchan/my-views/view/all/job/bcc-pr/label=ubuntu1710/1030/1030https://buildbot.iovisor.org/jenkins/user/jmarchan/my-views/view/all/job/bcc-pr/label=ubuntu1804/1030/