X-Git-Url: https://git.arvados.org/arvados.git/blobdiff_plain/88a29cd091468feb98e5cd541c560f4d35bca716..ff6785340ccbe4436bc0ee3b81cf084b3456a15d:/services/fuse/arvados_fuse/fusefile.py

diff --git a/services/fuse/arvados_fuse/fusefile.py b/services/fuse/arvados_fuse/fusefile.py
index cedb4fb451..116b5462b6 100644
--- a/services/fuse/arvados_fuse/fusefile.py
+++ b/services/fuse/arvados_fuse/fusefile.py
@@ -2,13 +2,15 @@
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0
 
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+from builtins import bytes
 import json
 import llfuse
 import logging
 import re
 import time
 
-from fresh import FreshBase, convertTime
+from .fresh import FreshBase, convertTime
 
 _logger = logging.getLogger('arvados.arvados_fuse')
 
@@ -88,7 +90,7 @@ class StringFile(File):
         return len(self.contents)
 
     def readfrom(self, off, size, num_retries=0):
-        return self.contents[off:(off+size)]
+        return bytes(self.contents[off:(off+size)], encoding='utf-8')
 
 
 class ObjectFile(StringFile):