greg ewing lwbwyflqtcanterburyacnz nick coghlan wrote since strong use cases least bytesint case consistency suggests numeric types accept bytes well interpreting ascii encoded strings far go conversion numbers really special bytes acceptable context requiring string implicit encoding ascii greg _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 114029 1200 pythondev decimalunicode