alex martelli typcyyjgmailcom tue mar 25 2008 943 nick coghlan wrote since strong use cases least bytesint case consistency suggests numeric types accept bytes well interpreting ascii encoded strings 1 seems practical well consistent see downsides alex _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 162422 0700 pythondev decimalunicode