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url: always use str for proxy configuration

Previously, proxies didn't work on Python 3 for various reasons.

First, the keys to the "proxies" dict are fed into a
`setattr(self, "%s_open", ...)` call and passing bytestrings
results in setting an oddly named attribute due to the b''
in %s formatting. This resulted in "http_open" and "https_open"
not being properly overridden and proxies not being used.

Second, the standard library was expecting proxy URLs to be
str. And various operations (including our custom code in
url.py) would fail to account for the str/bytes mismatch.

This commit normalizes everything to str and adjusts our
proxy code in url.py to account for the presence of str
on Python 3.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D5952

Mercurial has the ability to add new features through the use of
extensions. Extensions may add new commands, add options to
existing commands, change the default behavior of commands, or
implement hooks.

To enable the "foo" extension, either shipped with Mercurial or in the
Python search path, create an entry for it in your configuration file,
like this::

  [extensions]
  foo =

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  [extensions]
  myfeature = ~/.hgext/myfeature.py

See :hg:`help config` for more information on configuration files.

Extensions are not loaded by default for a variety of reasons:
they can increase startup overhead; they may be meant for advanced
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Mercurial. It is thus up to the user to activate extensions as
needed.

To explicitly disable an extension enabled in a configuration file of
broader scope, prepend its path with !::

  [extensions]
  # disabling extension bar residing in /path/to/extension/bar.py
  bar = !/path/to/extension/bar.py
  # ditto, but no path was supplied for extension baz
  baz = !