From 85e9405f8a3771942d414e05b88692cd47530e60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Forcier <jeff@bitprophet.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 13:16:47 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Make `byte_ord` gentler

---
 paramiko/py3compat.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/paramiko/py3compat.py b/paramiko/py3compat.py
index 2228599..8842b98 100644
--- a/paramiko/py3compat.py
+++ b/paramiko/py3compat.py
@@ -113,7 +113,9 @@ else:
         return s
 
     def byte_ord(c):
-        assert isinstance(c, int)
+        # In case we're handed a string instead of an int.
+        if not isinstance(c, int):
+            c = ord(c)
         return c
 
     def byte_chr(c):