[issue21416] argparse should accept bytes arguments as originally passed

[paul j3]

paul j3 added the comment:

Two points to keep in mind:

'argparse' works with 'sys.argv[1:]'.  If that does not contain what you want, then you can pass your own 'argv' to 'parse_args'.

'type=bytes' means, call the builtin 'bytes' function with one of the argv strings. If 'bytes' does not handle the string as you want, then you need to write your own function.

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