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cosmetic_changes.py: Do not convert text to byte string

This may cause UnicodeEncodeError on Python 2. See
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/pywikibot/2018-May/009829.html.

Change-Id: I50bde45c7288b3e400bfd2d5c333206811527de6
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M pywikibot/cosmetic_changes.py
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pywikibot/cosmetic_changes.py b/pywikibot/cosmetic_changes.py
index 3975096..a01d7f2 100755
--- a/pywikibot/cosmetic_changes.py
+++ b/pywikibot/cosmetic_changes.py
@@ -659,7 +659,8 @@
             for template in skip_templates[self.site.code]:
                 skip_regexes.append(
                     re.compile(r'\{\{\s*%s\s*\}\}' % template, re.I))
-        stripped_text = str(text)
+
+        stripped_text = text
         for reg in skip_regexes:
             stripped_text = reg.sub(r'', stripped_text)
 

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