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Fix #266: Document further how 'text' vs. 'bytes' values are stored. #331

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Document further how 'text' vs. 'bytes' values are stored.
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Think-o: 'bytes_value' -> 'blob_value'.
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Document further how 'text' vs. 'bytes' values are stored. 
Note how the two differ in Python2 vs. Python3.

Fixes #266.
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Expand Up @@ -68,6 +68,16 @@ class Entity(dict):
>>> dict(entity)
{'age': 20, 'name': 'JJ'}

.. note::

When saving an entity to the backend, values which are "text"
('unicode' in Python2, 'str' in Python3) will be saved using
the 'text_value' field, after being encoded to UTF-8. When
retrieved from the back-end, such values will be decoded to "text"
again. Values which are "bytes" ('str' in Python2, 'bytes' in
Python3), will be saved using the 'bytes_value' field, without

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any decoding / encoding step.

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"""

def __init__(self, dataset=None, kind=None):
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