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[bugfix] fromlist identifiers must not be unicode in Python 2

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Change-Id: I6186954414192cb51d1364eba780adbc14dc8d99
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M pywikibot/__init__.py
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pywikibot/__init__.py b/pywikibot/__init__.py
index f032eb1..f7504d3 100644
--- a/pywikibot/__init__.py
+++ b/pywikibot/__init__.py
@@ -1256,6 +1256,8 @@
 
     if not isinstance(interface, type):
         # If it isn't a class, assume it is a string
+        if PY2:  # Must not be unicode in Python 2
+            interface = str(interface)
         try:
             tmp = __import__('pywikibot.site', fromlist=[interface])
         except ImportError:

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