From f09752cac1ace14fbcd44a7efafd095291d8417e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kittywhiskers Van Gogh <63189531+kwvg@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2024 07:59:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] merge bitcoin#27280: Fix TypeError (expected str instance,
 bytes found) in wait_for_debug_log

---
 test/functional/test_framework/test_node.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/test/functional/test_framework/test_node.py b/test/functional/test_framework/test_node.py
index 2055f62c48..e69781d346 100755
--- a/test/functional/test_framework/test_node.py
+++ b/test/functional/test_framework/test_node.py
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ class TestNode():
                 return
 
             if time.time() >= time_end:
-                print_log = " - " + "\n - ".join(log.splitlines())
+                print_log = " - " + "\n - ".join(log.decode("utf8", errors="replace").splitlines())
                 break
 
             # No sleep here because we want to detect the message fragment as fast as