From 3fe14b8ed6673b05199a64e2b397202baf75eba9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Honnibal <honnibal@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 22:55:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] * Fix CFile for Python2

---
 spacy/cfile.pyx | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/spacy/cfile.pyx b/spacy/cfile.pyx
index 6346302b9..781759466 100644
--- a/spacy/cfile.pyx
+++ b/spacy/cfile.pyx
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ cdef class CFile:
     def __init__(self, loc, mode):
         if isinstance(mode, unicode):
             mode_str = mode.encode('ascii')
+        else:
+            mode_str = mode
         cdef bytes bytes_loc = loc.encode('utf8') if type(loc) == unicode else loc
         self.fp = fopen(<char*>bytes_loc, mode_str)
         if self.fp == NULL: