astropy__astropy-8707

Header.fromstring does not accept Python 3 bytes

Verdict: the issue points to the file or function that was changed (Tier B).

So probably the simplest solution for now (as opposed to adding new methods or something like that) is to change `Header.fromstring` to accept unicode or bytes string types.

The two checks disagreed (stated fix vs. points to it); the lower reading shown: “So probably the simplest solution for now (as opposed to adding new methods or something like that) is to change `Header.fromstring` to accept unicod…”

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