Moving from Python 2 to 3? Here's what you need to know about strings and their role in in your upgrade. An old joke asks "What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two ...

My c++ function is a callback that gets overwritten in python, the problem is that it has an argument that receives std::string, which is not valid utf8, and I want the argument passed in as bytes in ...

I get this from mypy: On Python 3 '{}'.format(b'abc') produces "b'abc'", not 'abc'; use '{!r}'.format(b'abc') if this is desired behavior [str-bytes-safe] That message doesn't make it clear whether ...