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Thu Feb 16 05:20:31 CET 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-February/061107.html

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006, Bob Ippolito wrote:
> On Feb 15, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Aahz wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2006, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>>
>>> Anyway, I'm now convinced that bytes should act as an array of ints,
>>> where the ints are restricted to range(0, 256) but have type int.
>>
>> range(0, 255)?
> 
> No, Guido was correct.  range(0, 256) is [0, 1, 2, ..., 255].

My mistake -- I wasn't thinking of the literal Python function.
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