Remove and replace compat.to_bytes

gitdb/pack.py

@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@
 from binascii import crc32
 
 from gitdb.const import NULL_BYTE
-from gitdb.utils.compat import to_bytes
 
 import tempfile
 import array
@@ -877,7 +876,11 @@ def collect_streams_at_offset(self, offset):
             stream = streams[-1]
             while stream.type_id in delta_types:
                 if stream.type_id == REF_DELTA:
-                    sindex = self._index.sha_to_index(to_bytes(stream.delta_info))
+                    # smmap can return memory view objects, which can't be compared as buffers/bytes can ...
+                    if isinstance(stream.delta_info, memoryview):
+                        sindex = self._index.sha_to_index(stream.delta_info.tobytes())
+                    else:
+                        sindex = self._index.sha_to_index(stream.delta_info)
                     if sindex is None:
                         break
                     stream = self._pack.stream(self._index.offset(sindex))

gitdb/utils/compat.py

@@ -2,17 +2,6 @@
 
 PY3 = sys.version_info[0] == 3
 
-try:
-    # Python 2
-    def to_bytes(i):
-        return i
-except NameError:
-    # smmap can return memory view objects, which can't be compared as buffers/bytes can ... 
-    def to_bytes(i):
-        if isinstance(i, memoryview):
-            return i.tobytes()
-        return i
-
 try:
     MAXSIZE = sys.maxint
 except AttributeError: