Fix message sending

Create constants for byte messages, implement asbytes so many methods can take Message and key objects directly and split get_string into get_text and get_binary. Also, change int handling to use mpint with a flag whenever the int is greater than 32 bits.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/paramiko/ber.py b/paramiko/ber.py
index f3b4b37e..45372fc4 100644
--- a/paramiko/ber.py
+++ b/paramiko/ber.py
@@ -30,13 +30,16 @@ class BER(object):
     Robey's tiny little attempt at a BER decoder.
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, content=''):
-        self.content = content
+    def __init__(self, content=bytes()):
+        self.content = b(content)
         self.idx = 0
 
-    def __str__(self):
+    def asbytes(self):
         return self.content
 
+    def __str__(self):
+        return self.asbytes()
+
     def __repr__(self):
         return 'BER(\'' + repr(self.content) + '\')'
 
@@ -126,5 +129,5 @@ class BER(object):
         b = BER()
         for item in data:
             b.encode(item)
-        return str(b)
+        return b.asbytes()
     encode_sequence = staticmethod(encode_sequence)