Bypass the decode() method in bytes subclasses.

[serhiy-storchaka]

The Python and the C implementations produce different results due to using the decode() method.

[boussouira]

This is old, but isn't str(bytes, encoding) is equivalent to bytes.decode(encoding)?

If at least one of encoding or errors is given, object should be a bytes-like object (e.g. bytes or bytearray). In this case, if object is a bytes (or bytearray) object, then str(bytes, encoding, errors) is equivalent to bytes.decode(encoding, errors). Otherwise, the bytes object underlying the buffer object is obtained before calling bytes.decode().

[serhiy-storchaka]

It is equivalent if the type of the object is bytes or bytearray. But if it is an instance of a subclass of bytes or bytearray with overridden decode() method, the result of the decode() method can be arbitrary.

[boussouira]

Make sense, Thank you!