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+Bytes/text management
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+
+The LDAP protocol states that some fields (distinguised names, relative distinguished names,
+attribute names, queries) be encoded in UTF-8; some other (mostly attribute *values*) **MAY**
+contain any type of data, and thus be treated as bytes.
+
+In Python 2, ``python-ldap`` used bytes for all fields, including those guaranteed to be text.
+In order to support Python 3, this distinction is made explicit. This is done
+through the ``bytes_mode`` flag to ``ldap.initialize()``.
+
+When porting from ``python-ldap`` 2.x, users are advised to update their code to set ``bytes_mode=False``
+on calls to these methods.
+Under Python 2, ``python-pyldap`` aggressively checks the type of provided arguments, and will raise a ``TypeError``
+for any invalid parameter.
+However, if the ``bytes_mode`` kwarg isn't provided, ``pyldap`` will only
+raise warnings.
+
+The typical usage is as follows; note that only the result's *values* are of the bytes type:
+
+.. code-block:: pycon
+
+    >>> import ldap
+    >>> con = ldap.initialize('ldap://localhost:389', bytes_mode=False)
+    >>> con.simple_bind_s('login', 'secret_password')
+    >>> results = con.search_s('ou=people,dc=example,dc=org', ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE, "(cn=Raphaël)")
+    >>> results
+    [
+        ("cn=Raphaël,ou=people,dc=example,dc=org", {
+            'cn': [b'Rapha\xc3\xabl'],
+            'sn': [b'Barrois'],
+        }),
+    ]
+
+
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