It's still a good reminder anyway. It's not something you often have to worry about. I just ran into this distinction dealing with handling raw http data. Was t

It's still a good reminder anyway. It's not something you often have to worry about. I just ran into this distinction dealing with handling raw http data. Was trying to check for string value in a byte string and took a bit to realize I was effectively doing: 'test' == b'test' which is, of course, False.