From e8caa9997b79eb8444fbf7419f6aac10a721980d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: prculley <paulr2787@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 17:22:42 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Bug 8809 Multiple GEDCOM imports creates duplicate event IDs

---
 gramps/plugins/lib/libgedcom.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 mode change 100644 => 100755 gramps/plugins/lib/libgedcom.py

diff --git a/gramps/plugins/lib/libgedcom.py b/gramps/plugins/lib/libgedcom.py
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 4df7b7feb..159a62809
--- a/gramps/plugins/lib/libgedcom.py
+++ b/gramps/plugins/lib/libgedcom.py
@@ -1747,10 +1747,11 @@ class IdFinder(object):
         @rtype: str
         """
         index = self.prefix % self.index
-        while str(index) in self.ids:
+        # self.ids contains 'bytes' data
+        while index.encode('utf-8') in self.ids:
             self.index += 1
             index = self.prefix % self.index
-        self.ids.add(index)
+        self.ids.add(index.encode('utf-8'))
         self.index += 1
         return index