[issue8925] Improve c-api/arg.rst: use "bytes" or "str" types instead of "string"

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:

> There's no way for a buffer compatible object to tell the
> arg parser that it is storing text data.

I think that the buffer protocol targets byte strings/arrays, and that unicode type should be enough.

If applications have to exchange text data, they use utf8, which is a byte string. I don't see the use case. Open a discussion on python-dev if you would like to continue the discussion because this issue is closed.

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