[Python-Dev] Unifying Long Integers and Integers: baseint (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Aug 12 07:19:58 CEST 2004


Martin:

Now, it would also "work" if it were a character string, which then gets converted to a byte string using the system default encoding

Or the encoding associated with the file object, which could be set to ascii, either by default or explicitly.

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