'Provides the unparsed content read from the control socket.
.. versionchanged:: 1.1.0
Added the get_bytes argument.
:param bool get_bytes: if **True** then this provides **bytes** rather than a **str**
:returns: **str** of the socket data used to generate this message'

def raw_content(self, get_bytes=False):

    if (stem.prereq.is_python_3() and (not get_bytes)):
        return stem.util.str_tools._to_unicode(self._raw_content)
    else:
        return self._raw_content
