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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Mar 1 05:13:07 CET 2006


Bill Janssen wrote:

Well, I can certainly understand the bytes->base64->bytes side of thing too. The "text" produced is specified as using "a 65-character subset of US-ASCII", so that's really bytes.

But it then goes on to say that these same characters are also a subset of EBCDIC. So it seems to be talking about characters as abstract entities here, not as bit patterns.

Greg



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