TypeError: cannot use a string pattern on a bytes-like object

[Pascal666]

pvshrink yields the below error when run under Python 3.8:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./pvshrink", line 118, in
match = re.search(r'Found text metadata area: offset=(\d+), size=(\d+)', pvck)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/re.py", line 201, in search
return _compile(pattern, flags).search(string)
TypeError: cannot use a string pattern on a bytes-like object

[ekuester]

This error is the same as in issue #1 and can be solved similarly. For further information look for instance under StackOverflow or this tutorial

Fortunately the error occurred after defragmentation, so in my case I could solve the resizing manually and do not want to repeat the operation on my harddisk (for further testing of code).