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Wed Jun 9 13:57:05 CEST 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-June/100521.html

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 13:40, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> No, I don't think so. If I'm using hex "encoding", it's because I want
> to see a text representation of some arbitrary bytestring (in order to
> display it inside another piece of text, for example).
> In other words, the purpose of hex is precisely to give a textual
> display of non-textual data.

Or I want to encode binary data in a non-binary-safe protocol, in
which case I probably want bytes.

Cheers,

Dirkjan

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