[issue23297] ‘tokenize.detect_encoding’ is confused between text and bytes: no ‘startswith’ method on a byte string

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray added the comment:

The error message could indeed be made clearer by turning it into a message that tokenize itself requires bytes input.  Or, more likely, the additional error handling needs to be in detect_encoding.

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