On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 at 02:26 steven meiers <commercials24@yahoo.de> wrote:

True, but since python 2.x is still shipped with debian testing for
example there will be some people running into this issue.
Just to make twisted more approachable this could he handled.

The b'GET' syntax for byte strings works on Python 2.7 (you get a str) as well as Python 3, so I would suggest we use it everywhere in the documentation / examples to make it easier on programmers using both Python 2 and 3.