commit 2cb82d2a88710b0af10b9d9721a9710ecc037e72
author Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Tue Aug 27 21:59:54 2019 -0700
committer Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com> Tue Aug 27 21:59:54 2019 -0700
tree aacb6591cd2559a5acde5765a4dd687506750358
parent 03c52f2f63a8abeb4afb75e9da46c7d6c0a8afd5

bpo-36582: Make collections.UserString.encode() return bytes, not str (GH-13138) (GH-15557)

(cherry picked from commit 2a16eea71f56c2d8f38c295c8ce71a9a9a140aff)

Co-authored-by: Daniel Fortunov <asqui@users.noreply.github.com>

Misc/ACKS

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 Michael Foord
 Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
 Doug Fort
+Daniel Fortunov
 Evens Fortuné
 Chris Foster
 John Fouhy

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-05-07-17-42-36.bpo-36582.L_dxR6.rst

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-05-07-17-42-36.bpo-36582.L_dxR6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-05-07-17-42-36.bpo-36582.L_dxR6.rst
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+Fix ``UserString.encode()`` to correctly return ``bytes`` rather than a ``UserString`` instance.
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