What is the proper way to determine if an object is a bytes-like object in Python?

Question

I have code that expects str but will handle the case of being passed bytes in the following way:

if isinstance(data, bytes):
    data          


        

Answer 1

>>> content = b"hello"
>>> text = "hello"
>>> type(content)

>>> type(text)

>>> type(text) is str
True
>>> type(content) is bytes
True