Use unicode instead of bytes (#46234)

The stdout and stderr values returned from self._low_level_execute() are text, not bytes. This results in an error in Python 3 since str and bytes cannot be concatenated.

Changing to unicode type allows this to work without error on Python 2 and Python 3.

(cherry picked from commit 77f73f6d2a)

changelogs/fragments/reboot-unicode-string.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - reboot - use unicode instead of bytes for stdout and stderr to match the
+    type returned from low_level_execute()

lib/ansible/plugins/action/reboot.py

@@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ class ActionModule(ActionBase):
         return reboot_command
 
     def get_system_boot_time(self):
-        stdout = ''
-        stderr = ''
+        stdout = u''
+        stderr = u''
         command_result = self._low_level_execute_command(self.DEFAULT_BOOT_TIME_COMMAND, sudoable=self.DEFAULT_SUDOABLE)
 
         # For single board computers, e.g., Raspberry Pi, that lack a real time clock and are using fake-hwclock