Comment 9 for bug 1828534

This is reproducible in a python3 shell. The problem is that sorted() is called on a list that includes both bytes and str types:

$ python3
Python 3.7.4 (default, Jul 11 2019, 10:43:21)
[GCC 9.1.0] on linux
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>>> blist=['1'.encode(), '3', '2'.encode()]
>>> sorted(blist)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'str' and 'bytes'
>>>