fixes issue #201: decoding Unicode

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4 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index d7eb0d7..cf491f6 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ ChangeLog
 
 .. should insert NEXT: at the beginning of line for next key (with empty line)
 
+NEXT:
+  - fixes issue #201: decoding unicode escaped tags on Python2, reported
+    by `Dan Abolafia <https://bitbucket.org/danabo/>`__
+
 0.15.39 (2018-06-17):
   - merge PR27 improving package startup time (and loading when regexp not 
     actually used), provided by 
diff --git a/__init__.py b/__init__.py
index 0474160..ebebc96 100644
--- a/__init__.py
+++ b/__init__.py
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ if False:  # MYPY
 
 _package_data = dict(
     full_package_name='ruamel.yaml',
-    version_info=(0, 15, 39),
-    __version__='0.15.39',
+    version_info=(0, 15, 40, 'dev'),
+    __version__='0.15.40.dev',
     author='Anthon van der Neut',
     author_email='a.van.der.neut@ruamel.eu',
     description='ruamel.yaml is a YAML parser/emitter that supports roundtrip preservation of comments, seq/map flow style, and map key order',  # NOQA
diff --git a/_test/test_tag.py b/_test/test_tag.py
index 2117ff4..247014b 100644
--- a/_test/test_tag.py
+++ b/_test/test_tag.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 import pytest   # NOQA
 
 from ruamel import yaml
-from roundtrip import round_trip
+from roundtrip import round_trip, round_trip_load
 
 
 class XXX(yaml.comments.CommentedMap):
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ yaml.add_representer(XXX, XXX.yaml_dump, representer=yaml.RoundTripRepresenter)
 
 
 class TestIndentFailures:
-
     def test_tag(self):
         round_trip("""\
         !!python/object:__main__.Developer
@@ -104,3 +103,10 @@ class TestRoundTripCustom:
             Export:
               Name: !Sub "${AWS::StackName}-Vpc"  # second tag
         """)
+
+
+class TestIssue201:
+    def  test_encoded_unicode_tag(self):
+        round_trip_load("""
+        s: !!python/%75nicode 'abc'
+        """)
diff --git a/scanner.py b/scanner.py
index 5e4dccf..0aab137 100644
--- a/scanner.py
+++ b/scanner.py
@@ -1582,7 +1582,7 @@ class Scanner(object):
             if PY3:
                 value = bytes(code_bytes).decode('utf-8')
             else:
-                value = unicode(''.join(code_bytes), 'utf-8')  # type: ignore
+                value = unicode(b''.join(code_bytes), 'utf-8')  # type: ignore
         except UnicodeDecodeError as exc:
             raise ScannerError("while scanning a %s" % name, start_mark,
                                str(exc), mark)