From c4efab61cdccb229d92e99309f672bf756445fdb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kurt McKee <contactme@kurtmckee.org>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2019 16:11:49 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Ensure that `pypdfChr()` always returns a `str` object

Fixes #42
---
 pypdf/utils.py | 9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pypdf/utils.py b/pypdf/utils.py
index f3ecfb9dc..e438776bf 100644
--- a/pypdf/utils.py
+++ b/pypdf/utils.py
@@ -306,13 +306,12 @@ def pypdfOrd(b):
 
 def pypdfChr(c):
     """
-    Abstracts the conversion from a single byte to the corresponding ASCII
-    character over versions 2.7.x and 3 of Python.
+    :type c: Union[int, bytes, str, unicode]
+    :rtype: str
     """
-    if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
-        return c
-    else:
+    if isinstance(c, int):
         return chr(c)
+    return chr(ord(c))
 
 
 def pypdfBytearray(b):