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

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> As per RDM's email to python-dev, a better way to create the
> pseudo_str values would be by decoding as ascii with a surrogate
> escape error handler rather than by decoding as latin-1.

If you were worried about performance, then surrogateescape is certainly
much slower than latin1.

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