>>> s = zlib.compress('Vlang\01\0neim\0F.code.tio\01\02R')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
>>> s = zlib.compress(b'Vlang\01\0neim\0F.code.tio\01\02R')
>>> s
b'x\x9c\x0b\xcbI\xccKgd\xc8K\xcd\xccep\xd3K\xceOI\xd5+\xc9\xccgd\n\x02\x00e\xca\x07\x81'