mail: use a native string for "subtype" value

mail: use a native string for "subtype" value

This is somehow similar to previous changeset and avoids one str
conversion.

--- a/hgext/patchbomb.py	Tue Nov 12 22:52:30 2019 +0100
+++ b/hgext/patchbomb.py	Wed Nov 13 15:23:04 2019 +0100
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@
         if body:
             msg.attach(mail.mimeencode(ui, body, _charsets, opts.get(b'test')))
         p = mail.mimetextpatch(
-            b'\n'.join(patchlines), b'x-patch', opts.get(b'test')
+            b'\n'.join(patchlines), 'x-patch', opts.get(b'test')
         )
         binnode = nodemod.bin(node)
         # if node is mq patch, it will have the patch file's name as a tag

--- a/mercurial/mail.py	Tue Nov 12 22:52:30 2019 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/mail.py	Wed Nov 13 15:23:04 2019 +0100
@@ -263,8 +263,8 @@
     return cs
 
 
-def mimetextpatch(s, subtype=b'plain', display=False):
-    # type: (bytes, bytes, bool) -> email.message.Message
+def mimetextpatch(s, subtype='plain', display=False):
+    # type: (bytes, str, bool) -> email.message.Message
     '''Return MIME message suitable for a patch.
     Charset will be detected by first trying to decode as us-ascii, then utf-8,
     and finally the global encodings. If all those fail, fall back to
@@ -290,13 +290,13 @@
 
 
 def mimetextqp(body, subtype, charset):
-    # type: (bytes, bytes, str) -> email.message.Message
+    # type: (bytes, str, str) -> email.message.Message
     '''Return MIME message.
     Quoted-printable transfer encoding will be used if necessary.
     '''
     cs = email.charset.Charset(charset)
     msg = email.message.Message()
-    msg.set_type(pycompat.sysstr(b'text/' + subtype))
+    msg.set_type('text/' + subtype)
 
     for line in body.splitlines():
         if len(line) > 950:
@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@
     cs = 'us-ascii'
     if not display:
         s, cs = _encode(ui, s, charsets)
-    return mimetextqp(s, b'plain', cs)
+    return mimetextqp(s, 'plain', cs)
 
 
 if pycompat.ispy3: