D2472: pycompat: prevent encoding or decoding values if not required

[indygreg (Gregory Szorc)]

indygreg added a comment.


  I agree with @yuja here. I think we should strive to convert URLs to bytes (like most other internal types). Although I do realize that lots of stdlib code has... expectations. Is there a particular test failure you are tracking down with this fix? I've kind of got a lot of the wire protocol code paged in right now. I could potentially offer some advice.

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  https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2472

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