From a10e397db18b2bf39c7b0b2d44165aa6b1de3480 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Johannes=20K=C3=B6ster?= <johannes.koester@tu-dortmund.de>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 16:32:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix: obtaining conda prefix when using in combination with
 singularity

---
 snakemake/deployment/conda.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/snakemake/deployment/conda.py b/snakemake/deployment/conda.py
index 956be88f0..869bb70ef 100644
--- a/snakemake/deployment/conda.py
+++ b/snakemake/deployment/conda.py
@@ -564,7 +564,9 @@ def __init__(self, container_img=None, prefix_path=None):
 
             if prefix_path is None or container_img is not None:
                 self.prefix_path = json.loads(
-                    shell.check_output(self._get_cmd("conda info --json"))
+                    shell.check_output(
+                        self._get_cmd("conda info --json"), universal_newlines=True
+                    )
                 )["conda_prefix"]
             else:
                 self.prefix_path = prefix_path