py3: fix str vs bytes in enough places to run `hg version` on Windows I don't have Visual Studio 2015 at home, but this now works with a handful of extensions (blackbox, extdiff, patchbomb, phabricator and rebase, but not evolve): $ HGMODULEPOLICY=py py -3 ../hg version Enabling the evolve extension causes the usual "failed to import ..." line, but then print this before the usual version output: ('commit', '[b'debugancestor', b'debugapplystreamclonebundle', ..., b'verify', b'version']') ... where the elided part seems to be every command and alias known.