[Release] download_rc_binaries.py fails validating sterr on download failure due to bytes to string comparison #48853
Description
Describe the bug, including details regarding any error messages, version, and platform.
When the dev/release/download_rc_binaries.py script fails downloading a file it checks whether it has to retry or not.
https://github.com/apache/arrow/actions/runs/20957811272/job/60324652206?pr=48843
The check is currently failing due to bytes to string comparison failure:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.12/concurrent/futures/process.py", line 263, in _process_worker
r = call_item.fn(*call_item.args, **call_item.kwargs)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/runner/work/arrow/arrow/dev/release/download_rc_binaries.py", line 237, in _download_file
self._download_url(url, dest_path, extra_args=extra_args)
File "/home/runner/work/arrow/arrow/dev/release/download_rc_binaries.py", line 139, in _download_url
if "OpenSSL" not in stderr:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
"""
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/runner/work/arrow/arrow/dev/release/download_rc_binaries.py", line 355, in <module>
download_rc_binaries(
File "/home/runner/work/arrow/arrow/dev/release/download_rc_binaries.py", line 303, in download_rc_binaries
downloader.download_files(
File "/home/runner/work/arrow/arrow/dev/release/download_rc_binaries.py", line 89, in download_files
parallel_map_terminate_early(
File "/home/runner/work/arrow/arrow/dev/release/download_rc_binaries.py", line 251, in parallel_map_terminate_early
raise e
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'Component(s)
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