tests: make test-manifest.py portable to Python 3
Lots of b prefixes here, and https://bugs.python.org/
issue29714 means
that this test is still very broken on Python 3.6 and 3.6.1, but 3.6.2
should things (based on testing using tip of the 3.6 branch from git).
#cleanup-only
#if no-windows no-osx
$ mkdir -p xdgconf/hg
$ echo '[ui]' > xdgconf/hg/hgrc
$ echo 'username = foobar' >> xdgconf/hg/hgrc
$ XDG_CONFIG_HOME="`pwd`/xdgconf" ; export XDG_CONFIG_HOME
$ unset HGRCPATH
$ hg config ui.username 2>/dev/null
foobar
#endif