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does anyone use the bytes type when dealing with ASCII characters, such as when the input provides the characters as bytes and/or (especially when and) the output wants the characters from you in bytes?

or should i just always convert bytes to str when i need to dabble with the characters instead of working with bytes directly?

i wonder how i might opine about this if i were a Python developer for C level functions and interfaces. for example subprocess.Popen accepts either str or bytes. i'm not such a developer and that might be a good thing.