mark dickinson vqpxmqtcgmailcom 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 mark thu 07 aug 2008 121836 0400 python3000 int float accept bytes