[Python-Dev] bytes.from_hex() (original) (raw)

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Thu Mar 2 07:31:17 CET 2006


Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

u = unicode(b) u = unicode(b, 'utf8') b = bytes'utf8' u = unicode'base64' # encoding b = bytes(u, 'base64') # decoding u2 = unicode'piglatin' # encoding u1 = unicode(u2, 'piglatin') # decoding

Your provided semantics feel cumbersome and confusing to me, as compared with str/unicode.encode/decode() .



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