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If this issue has raised previously, then I am sorry for repeating. I did a search but did not find related reports.
Below is the thing I did.
 config = configparser.RawConfigParser()
 #config.read_file(urlopen(path_config))
 config.read_file(open('jkl.ini', 'rb'))
The line commented out was the thing I wanted to do originally. I wanted to parse a configuration file stored on some web server. And I got this error "TypeError: startswith first arg must be bytes or a tuple of bytes, not str." But after I tried, with this line "config.read_file(open('jkl.ini', 'rb'))", the same error can be reproduced. Therefore, I think the error message should be stated another way around as "startswith first arg must be str instead of bytes or a tuple of bytes." I have checked this by adding the lines below to configparser.py after the for-loop at line 994.
 print(type(line))
 line = str(line, 'utf-8')
 print(type(line))
That made the code work.