guido van rossum hoaufpythonorg tue apr 15 2008 256 pm mark dickinson wrote tue apr 15 2008 237 pm gregory p smith wrote agreed otherwise common ascii based network protocol task reading bytes converting integer represent ascii would require additional unicode decoding step usecase doesnt seem particularly convincing reverse step converting integer ascii bytes instance still go unicode maybe intto_ascii method input output often wildly asymmetric anyway easy make int float accept input types making return different output type different find existing workarounds good enough propose whole new api end deciding add one anyway dont think to_ascii good name doesnt imply type result since ascii text also usually represented unicode str instance guido van rossum home page httpwwwpythonorgguido _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 092137 0700 python3000 int float accept bytes