From: ladyada <limor@ladyada.net>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 22:12:20 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: politely cope with strings of bytes
X-Git-Tag: 0.2^2~1
X-Git-Url: https://git.ayoreis.com/Adafruit_Blinka-hackapet.git/commitdiff_plain/d11b3854670343e9b9e397a95ca4e1b049ef58ec

politely cope with strings of bytes
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diff --git a/src/busio.py b/src/busio.py
index 3523acd..0d23b33 100755
--- a/src/busio.py
+++ b/src/busio.py
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ class I2C(Lockable):
         return self._i2c.readfrom_into(address, buffer, stop)
 
     def writeto(self, address, buffer, start=0, end=None, stop=True):
+        if isinstance(buffer, str):
+            buffer = bytes([ord(x) for x in buffer])
         if start is not 0 or end is not None:
             if end is None:
                 return self._i2c.writeto(address, memoryview(buffer)[start:], stop)