[issue8765] Tests unwillingly writing unicocde to raw streams

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> The initial problem here is that we can't write unicode to a buffered 
> binary stream (TypeError), but we can do it with an unbufferred raw 
> stream - as the C implementation of the latter does string coercion 
> instead of raising TypeError.
> Shouldn't we unify the behaviour of binary streams in such cases ?

Yes, we certainly should. This is probably an oversight or a bug.

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