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Author cmcqueen1975
Recipients cmcqueen1975, jettlogic, lemburg, loewis, mstatkus, skip.montanaro
Date 2009-11-25.03:07:18
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I think I see now--it accepts Unicode input, but converts it back to
bytes internally using the ASCII codec. So it works as long as the
Unicode input contains on ASCII characters. That's a gotcha.

It appears that it's been fixed in Python 3.x, judging by the documentation.
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2009-11-25 03:07:21cmcqueen1975setrecipients: + cmcqueen1975, lemburg, loewis, skip.montanaro, jettlogic, mstatkus
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