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Author	terry.reedy
Recipients	arjennienhuis, benjamin.peterson, christian.heimes, eric.smith, exarkun, ezio.melotti, loewis, martin.panter, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy, uau, vstinner
Date	2012-10-02.16:47:53
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Message-id	<1349196474.25.0.358384445084.issue3982@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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In 3.3+, somestring.encode('ascii') is a small constant-time operation. So for pure ascii text bytes, that seems the appropriate 3.x approach. I agree that something else should be used for binary formatting. Perhaps struct.pack could be extended to work with variable-length data the way I thought it already did. Otherwise, it already is the binary formatting method.

In 3.3+, somestring.encode('ascii') is a small constant-time operation. So for pure ascii *text* bytes, that seems the appropriate 3.x approach.

I agree that something else should be used for binary formatting. Perhaps struct.pack could be extended to work with variable-length data the way I thought it already did. Otherwise, it already *is* the binary formatting method.

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