New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr>:
a2b_hex and friends accept only byte strings:
>>> binascii.a2b_hex(b'00')
b'\x00'
>>> binascii.a2b_hex('00')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'str' does not support the buffer interface
But they could just as well accept ASCII-only unicode strings. Also, with PEP
393, accessing the 8-bit ASCII data doesn't even need a conversion.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 149876
nosy: haypo, pitrou
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: binascii.a2b_* functions could accept unicode strings
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.3
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