In the case of using urlopen, the conversion was explicitly performed by using the str statement and specifying that the content should be converted to UTF-8. For requests, the library was able to determine from the content within the HTML that it was in UTF-8 format by seeing the following tag in the document:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
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