[issue37001] symtable.symtable doesn't accept bytes which leads to a mismatch from compile()

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[issue37001] symtable.symtable doesn't accept bytes which leads to a mismatch from compile()

Dino Viehland added the comment: New changeset 415406999d7c09af9f3dcacfb4578b9e97b2ce77 by Dino Viehland in branch 'master': bpo-37001: Makes symtable.symtable have parity with compile for input (#13483) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/415406999d7c09af9f3dcacfb4578b9e97b2ce77

[issue37001] symtable.symtable doesn't accept bytes which leads to a mismatch from compile()

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[issue37001] symtable.symtable doesn't accept bytes which leads to a mismatch from compile()

New submission from Dino Viehland : symtable is useful when combined with compile() to AST to understand what the names bind to. But symtable.symtable() doesn't accept a bytes object, while compile does. Ultimately these feed down to the same API, and could easily lead to subtle mismatches