Release note [ci skip]

Author: cpcloud

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.16.1.txt

@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ Enhancements
 
 - ``DataFrame`` and ``Series`` now have ``_constructor_expanddim`` property as overridable constructor for one higher dimensionality data. This should be used only when it is really needed, see :ref:`here <ref-subclassing-pandas>`
 
+- ``pd.lib.infer_dtype`` now returns ``'bytes'`` in Python 3 where appropriate :issue:`10032`.
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 .. _whatsnew_0161.enhancements.categoricalindex:
 
 CategoricalIndex