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TypeError: LoadLibrary() argument 1 must be string, not unicode #1843

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Connected to pydev debugger (build 163.9735.8)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PyCharm 2016.3\helpers\pydev\pydevd.py", line 1596, in <module>
    globals = debugger.run(setup['file'], None, None, is_module)
  File "C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PyCharm 2016.3\helpers\pydev\pydevd.py", line 974, in run
    pydev_imports.execfile(file, globals, locals)  # execute the script
  File "C:/Users/Fernando/Documents/Medusa/start.py", line 4, in <module>
    from medusa.__main__ import main
  File "C:/Users/Fernando/Documents/Medusa\medusa\__main__.py", line 67, in <module>
    from . import (
  File "C:/Users/Fernando/Documents/Medusa\medusa\db.py", line 28, in <module>
    from . import app, logger
  File "C:/Users/Fernando/Documents/Medusa\medusa\logger.py", line 34, in <module>
    import knowit
  File "C:\Users\Fernando\Documents\Medusa\lib\knowit\__init__.py", line 26, in <module>
    from .api import know
  File "C:\Users\Fernando\Documents\Medusa\lib\knowit\api.py", line 10, in <module>
    ('mediainfo', MediaInfoProvider()),
  File "C:\Users\Fernando\Documents\Medusa\lib\knowit\providers\mediainfo.py", line 92, in __init__
    self.native_lib = self._create_native_lib()
  File "C:\Users\Fernando\Documents\Medusa\lib\knowit\providers\mediainfo.py", line 125, in _create_native_lib
    lib = windll.MediaInfo = windll.LoadLibrary(os.path.join(lib, 'MediaInfo.dll'))
  File "C:\Python27\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 440, in LoadLibrary
    return self._dlltype(name)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 362, in __init__
    self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
TypeError: LoadLibrary() argument 1 must be string, not unicode

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