add an iterbytes helper function
diff --git a/serial/urlhandler/protocol_loop.py b/serial/urlhandler/protocol_loop.py
index 02f30df..02167e5 100644
--- a/serial/urlhandler/protocol_loop.py
+++ b/serial/urlhandler/protocol_loop.py
@@ -174,9 +174,7 @@
if self._writeTimeout is not None and time_used_to_send > self._writeTimeout:
time.sleep(self._writeTimeout) # must wait so that unit test succeeds
raise writeTimeoutError
- #~ for byte in data: # fails for python3 as it returns ints instead of b''
- for x in range(len(data)):
- byte = data[x:x+1]
+ for byte in iterbytes(data):
self.queue.put(byte, timeout=self._writeTimeout)
return len(data)