[New-bugs-announce] [issue36582] collections.UserString encode method returns a string

[Trey Hunner]

New submission from Trey Hunner <trey at truthful.technology>:

It looks like the encode method for UserString incorrectly wraps its return value in a str call.

```
>>> from collections import UserString
>>> UserString("hello").encode('utf-8') == b'hello'
False
>>> UserString("hello").encode('utf-8')
"b'hello'"
>>> type(UserString("hello").encode('utf-8'))
<class 'collections.UserString'>
```

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 339818
nosy: trey
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: collections.UserString encode method returns a string
versions: Python 3.7

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