In addition to the standard message, I will use this message to break my commit down:
**A. Circumventing support issues from google datastore** - changes in io/gcp/datastore/ to prevent faulty imports - changes in setup.py to make google datastore a python2-only requirement **B. Tagging Jira issue 5627: bytes-like is required, not 'str'** - changes in the majority of the io/ files - updated tox.ini with working tests **C. Some minor bugfixes (bytes/str related)** -- After resolving any potential issues with this PR, I will likely try to solve Jira issue 5627. Please let me know if any other instances of this bug were found. [ Full content available at: https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/6590 ] This message was relayed via gitbox.apache.org for devnull@infra.apache.org
