[issue9873] urllib.parse: Allow bytes in some APIs that use string literals internally

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> added the comment:

Unless I hear some reasonable objections within the next week or so, I'm going to document and commit the ascii-strict coercion approach for beta 1.

The difference in code clarity is such that I'm not even going to try to benchmark the two approaches against each other.

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