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And I think everyone was well intentioned - and python3 covers most of the
bases, but working with binary data is not only a "wire-protocol programmer's"
problem. �Needing a library to wrap bytesthing.format('ascii', 'surrogateescape')
or some such thing makes python3 less approachable for those who haven't
learned that yet - which was almost all of us at some point when we started
programming.