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Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #31375, comment 3

-              initial
+              v1
 . Change `force_bytes` utility to `to_bytes` and add default keyword argument `force=True`. Then, hasher's `encode` method would use `to_bytes` function with `force=False` argument. In all other `force_bytes` occurrences in the codebase, changing from `force_bytes` to `to_bytes` should be sufficient.
+Edit: of course, we need to add a separate if statement for `str` itself.
 {{{#!python
 def to_bytes(s, encoding='utf-8', strings_only=False, errors='strict', force=True):
 …
     if isinstance(s, memoryview):
         return bytes(s)
+    if isinstance(s, str):
+        return s.encode(encoding, errors)
     if force:
         return str(s).encode(encoding, errors)