Re: inconsistency in converting from/to hex

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On 17/11/2013 06:31, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> I agree that its a bit of a mess. But only a little bit, and it will be
> less messy by 3.5 when the codecs solution is re-introduced. Then the
> codecs.encode and decode functions will be the one obvious way.
>

For anyone who's interested in the codecs issues see 
http://bugs.python.org/issue7475 and http://bugs.python.org/issue19543

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Mark Lawrence

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inconsistency in converting from/to hex Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2013-11-16 23:16 +0100
  Re: inconsistency in converting from/to hex Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-11-16 15:35 -0800
  Re: inconsistency in converting from/to hex Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-11-17 06:31 +0000
    Re: inconsistency in converting from/to hex Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-11-17 12:38 +0000
    Re: inconsistency in converting from/to hex Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2013-11-17 18:22 +0200

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