Martin Panter added the comment:
Also, “-bb” turns it into an exception, and the same applies to bytes vs int:
b"a" == "a"
Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> BytesWarning: Comparison between bytes and string
b"a" == 0x61
Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> BytesWarning: Comparison between bytes and int
Perhaps the documentation should say “should not be compared” rather than “cannot”. Or perhaps it should mention “-b”.
Mariatta: I don’t think this is relevant to 2.7. In 2.7, you do get an error with bytearray vs unicode, but bytearray is not discussed in this bit of the Py 2 documentation.
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