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

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:

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

If you were really worried about performance, the bytes type is maybe faster 
than: decode bytes to str using latin-1, process str strings, encode str to 
bytes using latin-1.

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