Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:
In Python 2, the unicode() constructor accepts bytes argument if it is
decodeable with sys.getdefaultencoding().
>>> unicode(b'abc')
u'abc'
>>> import sys
>>> reload(sys)
<module 'sys' (built-in)>
>>> sys.setdefaultencoding("utf-8")
>>> unicode(u'abcäöü'.encode('utf-8'))
u'abc\xe4\xf6\xfc'
In Python 3, the str() constructor does not accept bytes arguments if Python is
ran with -bb option.
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nosy: +serhiy.storchaka
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