ThomasWaldmann

diff --git a/borg/hashindex.pyx b/borg/hashindex.pyx
index 6652e05..0b4dc26 100644
--- a/borg/hashindex.pyx
+++ b/borg/hashindex.pyx
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ cdef class IndexBase:
     def __cinit__(self, capacity=0, path=None, key_size=32):
         self.key_size = key_size
         if path:
-            self.index = hashindex_read(os.fsencode(path))
+            path = os.fsencode(path)