stdlib `html.escape` is annotated as taking `AnyStr`, but actually crashes when called with `bytes`

[max-kamps]

Tested in Python version 3.14, not sure if other versions have the same behavior.

html.escape has the following signature:

def escape(s: AnyStr, quote: bool = True) -> AnyStr: ...

But calling html.escape with a bytes or bytearray argument raises the following exception:

File ".../lib/python3.14/html/__init__.py", line 19, in escape
    s = s.replace("&", "&") # Must be done first!
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

Either the type annotation should be changed to str instead of AnyStr, or someone could update the standard library to support bytes

[JelleZijlstra]

Yes, that should be changed to str. PR welcome!

You can open an issue on CPython if you want it to accept bytes, but that's not going to happen before Python 3.16 if at all.