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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Feb 22 01:34:06 CET 2006

Josiah Carlson wrote:

It doesn't seem strange to you to need to encode data twice to be able to have a usable sequence of characters which can be embedded in an effectively 7-bit email;

I'm talking about a 3.0 world where all strings are unicode and the unicode <-> external coding is for the most part done automatically by the I/O objects. So you'd be building up your whole email as a string (aka unicode) which happens to only contain code points in the range 0..127, and then writing it to your socket or whatever. You wouldn't need to do the second encoding step explicitly very often.

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