Apply suggestion: the `bytes(...)` call does nothing here
diff --git a/pre_commit_hooks/trailing_whitespace_fixer.py b/pre_commit_hooks/trailing_whitespace_fixer.py
index 6063684..b74b753 100644
--- a/pre_commit_hooks/trailing_whitespace_fixer.py
+++ b/pre_commit_hooks/trailing_whitespace_fixer.py
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
if _fix_file(
filename,
md,
- None if args.chars is None else bytes(args.chars.encode('utf-8')),
+ None if args.chars is None else args.chars.encode('utf-8'),
):
print('Fixing {}'.format(filename))
return_code = 1