TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

[ubuntupunk]

With Python 3.8.10

Current dir: /home/<user>/dep/skia/out/Release-x64/
Command: python /home/<user>/dep/skia/gn/is_clang.py cc c++
Returned 1.
stderr:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/<user>/dep/skia/gn/is_clang.py", line 12, in <module>
    if ('clang' in subprocess.check_output('%s --version' % cc, shell=True) and
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

@skia Please indicate which python should be used to compile this