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Could someone explain this part?

> Now this all would not be a problem if the bytestring type would still exist on Python 3, but it does not. It was replaced by the byte type which does not behave like a string.

I was under impression that bytes is just an array of bytes and provides pretty much what `str` provided. What big thing is missing from that interface?






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