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Author pitrou
Recipients pitrou, vstinner
Date 2011-12-19.16:30:44
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Message-id <1324312244.97.0.383716057437.issue13637@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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a2b_hex and friends accept only byte strings:

>>> binascii.a2b_hex(b'00')
b'\x00'
>>> binascii.a2b_hex('00')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'str' does not support the buffer interface

But they could just as well accept ASCII-only unicode strings. Also, with PEP 393, accessing the 8-bit ASCII data doesn't even need a conversion.
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2011-12-19 16:30:45pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, vstinner
2011-12-19 16:30:44pitrousetmessageid: <1324312244.97.0.383716057437.issue13637@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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