mromberg/scipy — pull request #1 by mromberg (2014-05-21 06:08:47+00:00)
Title: Python 3 bytes types stored as '>c' in the same way python 2 did.

These two global attributes are now the same:

'ran away' and b'ran away'

From ncdump -h

:robin = "ran away" ;

Python 2 returns a string for _attributes['robin'] and python3 returns
a bytes. So, python 3 users can deal with the encode()/decode() pain like any
other binary string.