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py3: fix str vs bytes in enough places to run `hg version` on Windows

I don't have Visual Studio 2015 at home, but this now works with a handful of
extensions (blackbox, extdiff, patchbomb, phabricator and rebase, but not
evolve):

    $ HGMODULEPOLICY=py py -3 ../hg version

Enabling the evolve extension causes the usual "failed to import ..." line, but
then print this before the usual version output:

    ('commit', '[b'debugancestor', b'debugapplystreamclonebundle', ...,
     b'verify', b'version']')

... where the elided part seems to be every command and alias known.

Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.