lxml/lxml — pull request #75 by canaaerus (2012-10-28 17:43:10+00:00)
Title: Allow bytes as input to lxml.html.fromstring, thereby fixing issue #33.

The new code in `fromstring` now uses appropriate arguments to `startswith` depending on whether a bytes object was given as input or not. I also added a test case, that gives `bytes` data and provides the encoding via the `parser` argument.

I think using this new branch makes the commit history clean enough.