Ezio Melotti added the comment: The deprecation process can be avoided only if passing strings results in a meaningless result. If there are cases where users are passing strings and everything works fine -- even if they should be passing bytes instead -- we should deprecate strings first to warn the users that the "feature" is going to be removed.
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