Why do I need 'b' to encode a string with Base64?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8908...

Question links:
[python example]: http://docs.python.org/release/3.1.3/lib...

Accepted answer links:
[Variants summary table]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64#Var...

Answer 2 links:
[table for base-64]: http://www.garykessler.net/library/base6...

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