On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 13:40, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@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 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
