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demandimport: convert ignored modules from bytes -> str in extensions

The default list of ignored modules are str, and test for bypassing the lazy
import is `module.__name__ in ignores`, so these were effectively NOT ignored.
Most of these date back to the grand byteification in 687b865b95ad, with some
subsequent additions that followed the existing example.

I have no idea if these modules in fact need to bypass lazy importing, but at
least it follows the intent of the code.

Mercurial
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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.

Notes for packagers
===================

Mercurial ships a copy of the python-zstandard sources. This is used to
provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
module is not intended to be replaced by the plain python-zstandard nor
is it intended to use a system zstd library. Patches can result in hard
to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.