Recently I upgraded my Arch linux box and python switched to version 3 causing my conky.rc to break. Conky shows the status of my email box through the usage of a python script imap.py that failed with the following message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "imap.py", line 37, in
server.login(username,password)
File "/usr/lib/python3.1/imaplib.py", line 512, in login
typ, dat = self._simple_command('LOGIN', user, self._quote(password))
File "/usr/lib/python3.1/imaplib.py", line 1072, in _quote
arg = arg.replace(b'\\', b'\\\\')
TypeError: Can't convert 'bytes' object to str implicitly
Found this issue about it. Changing the script with the diff suggested solved the problem. I added the following line right before logging in:
password = bytes(password, "ASCII")