Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
In 3.3+, somestring.encode('ascii') is a small constant-time operation. So for
pure ascii *text* bytes, that seems the appropriate 3.x approach.
I agree that something else should be used for binary formatting. Perhaps
struct.pack could be extended to work with variable-length data the way I
thought it already did. Otherwise, it already *is* the binary formatting method.
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