str(bytes) in Python 3.0

[Christian Heimes]

Gabriel Genellina schrieb:
> On the last line, str(x), I would expect 'abc' - same as str(x, 'ascii')  
> above. But I get the same as repr(x) - is this on purpose?

Yes, it's on purpose but it's a bug in your application to call str() on
a bytes object or to compare bytes and unicode directly. Several months
ago I added a bytes warning option to Python. Start Python as  "python
-bb" and try it again. ;)

Christian