greg ewing lwbwyflqtcanterburyacnz nick coghlan wrote yeah thread convinced would better start rejecting bytes int float well rather implicitly assuming ascii encoding another thought would feasible kind wrapper object would make byte array containing ascii chars look like string cases like could handled without copy data greg _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 125951 1200 pythondev decimalunicode