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Author martin.panter
Recipients christian.heimes, mark.dickinson, martin.panter, meador.inge, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, takluyver, terry.reedy
Date 2014-12-16.22:34:55
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Actually the “struct” module doc string seems to already hint that format strings can be byte strings:

“Python bytes objects are used to hold the data representing the C struct and also as format strings . . .”
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2014-12-16 22:34:55martin.pantersetrecipients: + martin.panter, rhettinger, terry.reedy, mark.dickinson, christian.heimes, meador.inge, takluyver, serhiy.storchaka
2014-12-16 22:34:55martin.pantersetmessageid: <1418769295.36.0.70958096855.issue16349@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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