Does Python 3.x have a built-in byte string compare function?

[Raptor88]

see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37869...on-2-and-3

I couldn't figure out how to apply the info in the link to my task, probably because of my being a Python newbie.

So I coded my task and found that to code the search and replace in my step-3 above is actually very easy in Python.  No need to find a Python function to do it.

Thanks,
Raptor88