Refs -- Made _lazy_re_compile() support bytes.
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ def _lazy_re_compile(regex, flags=0):
"""Lazily compile a regex with flags."""
def _compile():
# Compile the regex if it was not passed pre-compiled.
- if isinstance(regex, str):
+ if isinstance(regex, (str, bytes)):
return re.compile(regex, flags)
else:
assert not flags, (
