# (c) 2012-2014, Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com>
#
# This file is part of Ansible
#
# Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
__metaclass__ = type

import os
from errno import EEXIST

__all__ = ['unfrackpath']

def unfrackpath(path):
    '''
    returns a path that is free of symlinks, environment
    variables, relative path traversals and symbols (~)
    example:
    '$HOME/../../var/mail' becomes '/var/spool/mail'
    '''
    return os.path.normpath(os.path.realpath(os.path.expandvars(os.path.expanduser(path))))

def makedirs_safe(path, mode=None):
    '''Safe way to create dirs in muliprocess/thread environments'''
    if not os.path.exists(path):
        try:
            if mode:
                os.makedirs(path, mode)
            else:
                os.makedirs(path)
        except OSError as e:
            if e.errno != EEXIST:
                raise

@@ -829,16 +829,59 @@
 t EEXIST
+%0Afrom ansible.utils.unicode import to_bytes
 %0A%0A__all_
@@ -1343,20 +1343,47 @@
 .exists(
-path
+to_bytes(path, errors='strict')
 ):%0A     

Add missing to_bytes on directory path.