py3: make a bytes version of getopt.getopt() getopt.getopt() deals with unicodes on Python 3 internally and if bytes arguments are passed, then it will return TypeError. So we have now pycompat.getoptb() which takes bytes arguments, convert them to unicode, call getopt.getopt() and then convert the returned value back to bytes and then return those value. All the instances of getopt.getopt() are replaced with pycompat.getoptb().