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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 20:09:01 -0600
Subject: Re: How to turn a string into a list of integers?
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On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> If it's a Unicode string (which is the default in Python 3), all
> Unicode characters will work correctly.

Assuming the library that needs this is expecting codepoints and will
accept integers greater than 255.

> If it's a byte string (the
> default in Python 2), then you can't actually have any Unicode
> characters in it at all, you have bytes; Py2 lets you be a bit sloppy
> with the ASCII range, but technically, you still have bytes, not
> characters..

In that case the library will almost certainly accept it, but could be
expecting a different encoding.