From: E. A. Graham Jr <EAGrahamJr@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2024 18:53:43 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: A work-around for using byte-string as the data
X-Git-Tag: 2.1.2^2~6
X-Git-Url: https://git.ayoreis.com/hackapet/Adafruit_Blinka_Displayio.git/commitdiff_plain/a7c4f8b9e3a58b0da8dcacdc3e5414427f8b487f

A work-around for using byte-string as the data

Fixes #137 -- a byte-string is not representable as a `list` for adding, so this just re-wraps the iterable in a "real" `list`
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diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2c6ddfd..4fc1bd3 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -16,3 +16,5 @@ bundles
 dist
 **/*.egg-info
 .vscode
+venv
+.venv
diff --git a/i2cdisplaybus/__init__.py b/i2cdisplaybus/__init__.py
index c8d6441..b004e54 100644
--- a/i2cdisplaybus/__init__.py
+++ b/i2cdisplaybus/__init__.py
@@ -87,7 +87,9 @@ class I2CDisplayBus:
         done.
         """
         self._begin_transaction()
-        self._send(DISPLAY_COMMAND, CHIP_SELECT_UNTOUCHED, bytes([command] + data))
+        # re-wrap in case of byte-string
+        buffer = list(data) if isinstance(data, bytes) else data
+        self._send(DISPLAY_COMMAND, CHIP_SELECT_UNTOUCHED, bytes([command] + buffer))
         self._end_transaction()
 
     def _send(