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On 2012-03-28, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:

> for all you know, it might actually be stored as a sequence of
> apples in a refrigerator

[...]

> There's no logical Python way to turn that into a series of bytes.

There's got to be a joke there somewhere about how to eat an apple...

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