Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Wed Jan 15 06:57:57 CET 2014

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Steven D'Aprano writes:

 > I thought I understand the purpose of asciistr was exactly that, to
 > produce something that was compatible with both bytes and strings.

asciistr *canonizes* something as an ASCII string, and therefore
compatible with both bytes and str.  It can't *create* such a thing ex
nihilo.

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