This patch changes some internal "struct.Struct.format" strings from
"bytes" to "str", to avoid "BytesWarning" when running python -bb.
Thanks to everyone involved in pytest-xdist issue 596, bpo-16349,
bpo-21071, and bpo-41777 for their work on this - it was a remarkably
subtle issue!
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