interface{ ~[]byte | myString }           // bytestring
</pre>

<p>
Note that <code>bytestring</code> is not a real type; it cannot be used to declare
variables or compose other types. It exists solely to describe the behavior of some
operations that read from a sequence of bytes, which may be a byte slice or a string.
</p>

<h3 id="Type_identity">Type identity</h3>

<p>

* In `encoders.jsonable_encoder` remove parameter `sqlalchemy_safe`.
    * It was an early hack to allow returning SQLAlchemy models, but it was never documented, and the recommended way is using Pydantic's `orm_mode` as described in the tutorial: [SQL (Relational) Databases](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/sql-databases/).
    * PR [#1864](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/1864).

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