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[Python-Dev] bytes.from_hex()

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Feb 22 01:34:06 CET 2006 
Josiah Carlson wrote:

> It doesn't seem strange to you to need to encode data twice to be able
> to have a usable sequence of characters which can be embedded in an
> effectively 7-bit email;

I'm talking about a 3.0 world where all strings are unicode
and the unicode <-> external coding is for the most part
done automatically by the I/O objects. So you'd be building
up your whole email as a string (aka unicode) which happens
to only contain code points in the range 0..127, and then
writing it to your socket or whatever. You wouldn't need
to do the second encoding step explicitly very often.

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