More string bytes fixes

resources/lib/context.py

@@ -59,14 +59,14 @@ class ContextMenu(xbmcgui.WindowXMLDialog):
         if action in (ACTION_SELECT_ITEM, ACTION_MOUSE_LEFT_CLICK):
             if self.getFocusId() == LIST:
                 option = self.list_.getSelectedItem()
-                self.selected_option = option.getLabel().decode('utf-8')
+                self.selected_option = option.getLabel()
                 LOG.info('option selected: %s', self.selected_option)
                 self.close()
 
     def _add_editcontrol(self, x, y, height, width, password=None):
         media = path_ops.path.join(
             v.ADDON_PATH, 'resources', 'skins', 'default', 'media')
-        filename = utils.try_encode(path_ops.path.join(media, 'white.png'))
+        filename = path_ops.path.join(media, 'white.png')
         control = xbmcgui.ControlImage(0, 0, 0, 0,
                                        filename=filename,
                                        aspectRatio=0,

resources/lib/plexbmchelper/plexgdm.py

@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ class plexgdm(object):
         while self._registration_is_running:
             try:
                 data, addr = update_sock.recvfrom(1024)
+                data = data.decode()
                 log.debug("Recieved UDP packet from [%s] containing [%s]"
                           % (addr, data.strip()))
             except socket.error:

resources/lib/utils.py

@@ -320,31 +320,15 @@ def cast(func, value):
 
 def extend_url(url, params):
     """
-    Pass in an url [unicode] and params [dict]. Returns the extended url
+    Pass in an url [string] and params [dict]. Returns the extended url
         '<url><? or &><urllib.urlencode(params)>'
-    in unicode
+    in string
     """
-    params = encode_dict(params) if params else {}
-    params = urllib.parse.urlencode(params).decode('utf-8')
+    params = urllib.parse.urlencode(params)
     if '?' in url:
-        return '%s&%s' % (url, params)
+        return f'{url}&{params}'
     else:
-        return '%s?%s' % (url, params)
-
-
-def encode_dict(dictionary):
-    """
-    Pass in a dict. Will return the same dict with all keys and values encoded
-    in utf-8 - as long as they are unicode. Ignores all non-unicode entries
-
-    Useful for urllib.urlencode or urllib.(un)quote
-    """
-    for key, value in dictionary.items():
-        if isinstance(key, str):
-            dictionary[key.encode('utf-8')] = dictionary.pop(key)
-        if isinstance(value, str):
-            dictionary[key] = value.encode('utf-8')
-    return dictionary
+        return f'{url}?{params}'
 
 
 def parse_qs(qs, keep_blank_values=0, strict_parsing=0):