Connecting to mediawiki with basic-auth fails

[dev-zero]

  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/simplemediawiki.py", line 251, in login
    return do_login(self, user, passwd)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/simplemediawiki.py", line 242, in do_login
    result = self.call(data)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/simplemediawiki.py", line 184, in call
    return json.loads(self._fetch_http(self._api_url, params))
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/simplemediawiki.py", line 153, in _fetch_http
    base64string = base64.encodestring(auth_str).replace('\n', '')
TypeError: expected bytes, bytearray or buffer compatible object

the problem is that the arguments passed to replace must be of the same type. So line 153 should read:

            base64string = base64.encodestring(auth_str).replace(b'\n', b'')

even after that change, the request fails:

  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/simplemediawiki.py", line 251, in login
    return do_login(self, user, passwd)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/simplemediawiki.py", line 242, in do_login
    result = self.call(data)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/simplemediawiki.py", line 184, in call
    return json.loads(self._fetch_http(self._api_url, params))
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/simplemediawiki.py", line 156, in _fetch_http
    response = self._opener.open(request)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/urllib/request.py", line 475, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/urllib/request.py", line 587, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/urllib/request.py", line 513, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/urllib/request.py", line 447, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/urllib/request.py", line 595, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 401: Authorization Required

[fhocutt]

This may be a problem with the configuration of urllib's HTTPDigestAuthHandler.