what is this kind of string: b'string' ?

[Stef Mientki]

 in winpdb I see strings like this:

>>>a = b'string'
>>>a
'string'
>>> type(a)
<type 'str'>

what's the "b" doing in front of the string ?

thanks,
Stef Mientki
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