Support running in a pendantic mode requiring and enforcing type declarations. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63838471/possible-to-enforce-type-hints http

Support running in a pendantic mode requiring and enforcing type declarations. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63838471/possible-to-enforce-type-hints https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63838471/possible-to-enf... Also, simplify the whole str / byte / utf-8 encoding decoding process. Python is the only language where these errors are so prevalent.