Fix issue #136 for Python 2.7 too. (#140)

tests.py

@@ -695,13 +695,13 @@ class TestYara(unittest.TestCase):
     def testMeta(self):
 
         r = yara.compile(source=r'rule test { meta: a = "foo\x80bar" condition: true }')
-        self.assertTrue(list(r)[0].meta['a'] == 'foobar')
+        self.assertTrue((list(r)[0].meta['a']) == 'foobar')
 
     # This test ensures that anything after the NULL character is stripped.
     def testMetaNull(self):
 
         r = yara.compile(source=r'rule test { meta: a = "foo\x00bar\x80" condition: true }')
-        self.assertTrue(list(r)[0].meta['a'] == 'foo')
+        self.assertTrue((list(r)[0].meta['a']) == 'foo')
 
     # This test is similar to testMeta but it tests the meta data generated
     # when a Match object is created.
@@ -709,7 +709,7 @@ class TestYara(unittest.TestCase):
 
         r = yara.compile(source=r'rule test { meta: a = "foo\x80bar" condition: true }')
         m = r.match(data='dummy')
-        self.assertTrue(list(m)[0].meta['a'] == 'foobar')
+        self.assertTrue((list(m)[0].meta['a']) == 'foobar')
 
     def testFilesize(self):
 

yara @ b15d6bb0

-Subproject commit 60034b7e1929695c86a541a224e579ff8b79f75c
+Subproject commit b15d6bb0568fc77923e6149322e6d63a8b2007b6

yara-python.c

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ typedef long Py_hash_t;
 #define PY_STRING_TO_C(x) PyUnicode_AsUTF8(x)
 #define PY_STRING_CHECK(x) PyUnicode_Check(x)
 #else
-#define PY_STRING(x) PyString_FromString(x)
+#define PY_STRING(x) PyString_Decode(x, strlen(x), "utf-8", "ignore")
 #define PY_STRING_TO_C(x) PyString_AsString(x)
 #define PY_STRING_CHECK(x) (PyString_Check(x) || PyUnicode_Check(x))
 #endif