On 1/12/2014 2:57 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> But bytes already acknowledges an ASCII bias.
True, but that bias is implemented without use of encoding or
decoding. b'%d' % (123,) -> b'123' does require encoding, at the
very least in the sense of type change and serialization.
b'%d' all by itself, even before using the % operator, does require
encoding, at the very list in the sense of type change and serialization.
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