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Base class for the `Bytes` and `Str` parameters.

Previously `Str` was as subclass of `Bytes`.  Now the common functionality
has been split into this base class so that ``isinstance(foo, Bytes)`` wont
be ``True`` when ``foo`` is actually an `Str` instance (which is confusing).