safehasattr: pass attribute name as string instead of bytes
This is a step toward replacing `util.safehasattr` usage with plain `hasattr`.
The builtin function behave poorly in Python2 but this was fixed in Python3.
These change are done one by one as they tend to have a small odd to trigger
puzzling breackage.
Set up
$ hg init repo
$ cd repo
$ echo a > a
$ hg add a
$ hg commit -m a
Try to import an empty patch
$ hg import --no-commit - <<EOF
> EOF
applying patch from stdin
abort: stdin: no diffs found
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No dirstate backups are left behind
$ ls .hg/dirstate* | sort
.hg/dirstate