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ngie
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2019-04-23T22:43:24.273850Z
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Ugh. Deal with encoding/decoding UTF-8 strings to bytes as needed

I couldn't tell if the type was str in all cases, so conditionally convert it
to a bytes object with py3 as needed.

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