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Wed Nov 19 14:16:35 EST 2003

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aaron at reportlab.com (Aaron Watters) writes:
>    repr(string) went hex and broke a lot of stuff for interacting
>      with systems that matched the old octal representation 
>      (pdf format for example).  It's very hard to ferret out all
>      the places where someone assumed that chr(0)=="\000".

repr really shouldn't be used that way though.

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