greg ewing lwbwyflqtcanterburyacnz terry reedy wrote purpose type constructors construct instances reasonable inputs think number constructors accept bytes bytes input number constructor mean though people seem assuming interpreted asciiencoded characters equally plausible interpretation might binary representation number greg _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 105936 1200 pythondev decimalunicode