From 1066c79b56cd4f9ee421cd852685cac953402154 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Sampson <adrian@radbox.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:02:06 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] simplify path type coercion in MatchQuery (#470)

---
 beets/library.py | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/beets/library.py b/beets/library.py
index 062114f5d..dab48bce5 100644
--- a/beets/library.py
+++ b/beets/library.py
@@ -1027,10 +1027,7 @@ class MatchQuery(FieldQuery):
     def col_clause(self):
         pattern = self.pattern
         if self.field == 'path':
-          if isinstance(pattern, unicode):
-              pattern = bytestring_path(pattern)
-          if isinstance(pattern, str):
-            pattern = buffer(pattern)
+            pattern = buffer(bytestring_path(pattern))
         return self.field + " = ?", [pattern]
 
     # We override the "raw" version here as a special case because we