py3: use pycompat.fsdecode() to pass to imp.* functions When we try to pass a bytes argument to a function from imp library, it returns TypeError as it deals with unicodes internally. So we can't use bytes with imp.* functions. Hunting through this, I found we were returning bytes path variable to loadpath() on Python 3.5 (yes most of our codebase is dealing with bytes on Python 3 especially the path variables). Passing unicode does not fails the purpose of loding the extensions and a module object is returned.

localrepo: use ProgrammingError This is an example usage of ProgrammingError. Let's start migrating RuntimeError to ProgrammingError. The code only runs when devel.all-warnings or devel.check-locks is set, so it does not affect the end-user experience.