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lvh on May 7, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Key differences between Python 2.7.x and Python 3....

> Python 2 has ASCII str() types, separate unicode(), but no byte type.

This is incorrect in at least two ways:

- Python 2.7.x str is _not_ ASCII! "\xff" is totally valid, but not a valid ASCII string.

- Python 2.7.x has bytearray.

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