From 8fa3b6378d5abe931072f68879350a44b72593b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Igor Pashev <pashev.igor@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 08:42:07 +0200
Subject: Python: use bytes

---
 mendeleev.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mendeleev.py b/mendeleev.py
index b026ab1..4518ca8 100644
--- a/mendeleev.py
+++ b/mendeleev.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ ELEMENTS = [
 ]
 # fmt: on
 
-elements = [el.lower() for el in ELEMENTS]
+elements = [el.lower().encode() for el in ELEMENTS]
 
 
 def search(start, length, shift, char):
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ def advance(els, tail):
 
 
 def explode(word):
-    result = [([], word.lower())]
+    result = [([], word.lower().encode())]
     while True:
         new = []
         tail = None
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