Distinguish byte (python2 str type) and unicode strings (python 3 str type)

Python 3 strings are python 2 unicode strings. Therefore consistently mark
strings that are sent via pipes or written/read to file as byte strings.

docs/md2man.py

@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ if len(sys.argv) != 3:
 
 infile = sys.argv[1]
 htmlfile = sys.argv[2]
-lines += open(infile).read().decode('utf8').split('\n')
+lines += open(infile, 'rb').read().decode('utf8').split('\n')
 
 # parse pandoc-style document headers (not part of markdown)
 g = re.match(r'^%\s+(.*?)\((.*?)\)\s+(.*)$', lines[0])

redo/builder.py

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ def start_stdin_log_reader(status, details, pretty, color,
             # subprocess died without sending us anything: that's bad.
             err('failed to start redo-log subprocess; cannot continue.\n')
             os._exit(99)
-        assert b == 'REDO-OK\n'
+        assert b == b'REDO-OK\n'
         # now we know the subproc is running and will report our errors
         # to stderr, so it's okay to lose our own stderr.
         os.close(ar)
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ class _BuildJob(object):
         ffd, fname = tempfile.mkstemp(prefix='redo.', suffix='.tmp')
         helpers.close_on_exec(ffd, True)
         os.unlink(fname)
-        self.outfile = os.fdopen(ffd, 'w+')
+        self.outfile = os.fdopen(ffd, 'w+b')
         # this will run in the dofile's directory, so use only basenames here
         arg1 = basename + ext  # target name (including extension)
         arg2 = basename        # target name (without extension)
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ class _BuildJob(object):
                 # script wrote to stdout.  Copy its contents to the tmpfile.
                 helpers.unlink(self.tmpname)
                 try:
-                    newf = open(self.tmpname, 'w')
+                    newf = open(self.tmpname, 'wb')
                 except IOError as e:
                     dnt = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(t))
                     if not os.path.exists(dnt):

redo/cmd_log.py

@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ def main():
             # their old stderr.
             ack_fd = int(opt.ack_fd)
             assert ack_fd > 2
-            if os.write(ack_fd, 'REDO-OK\n') != 8:
+            if os.write(ack_fd, b'REDO-OK\n') != 8:
                 raise Exception('write to ack_fd returned wrong length')
             os.close(ack_fd)
         queue += targets

redo/jobserver.py

@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ def _release(n):
     assert _cheats >= 0
     if n_to_share:
         _debug('PUT tokenfds %d\n' % n_to_share)
-        os.write(_tokenfds[1], 't' * n_to_share)
+        os.write(_tokenfds[1], b't' * n_to_share)
 
 
 def _release_except_mine():
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ def _try_read(fd, n):
 
 
 def _try_read_all(fd, n):
-    bb = ''
+    bb = b''
     while 1:
         b = _try_read(fd, n)
         if not b: