Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail
Return-Path: <python-python-list@m.gmane.org>
X-Original-To: python-list@python.org
Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org
X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001
X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'method.': 0.07; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'language.': 0.14; '-tkc': 0.16; ':-(': 0.16; 'dump': 0.16; 'hex': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'subject:More': 0.16; 'subject:Unicode': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'seems': 0.21; '>>>': 0.22; 'header:User- Agent:1': 0.23; '2.x': 0.24; 'bytes': 0.24; 'gets': 0.27; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'tim': 0.29; "doesn't": 0.30; 'easier': 0.31; 'chase': 0.31; 'subject:About': 0.31; 'another': 0.32; 'but': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'turn': 0.37; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'sure': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'subject:"': 0.60; 'new': 0.61; 'back': 0.62; 'such': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; '2.8': 0.84; 'received:2': 0.84
X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/
To: python-list@python.org
From: Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: "More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 20:47:11 +0000
References: <lablra$1mc$2@ger.gmane.org> <labmaj$8u2$1@ger.gmane.org> <lad05k$gf6$1@ger.gmane.org> <CAPTjJmqBeoTLxXiKVcsvk395qgKt+Qv+jF_sOpzi7CgZmBjQcw@mail.gmail.com> <52CA13BD.4050708@stoneleaf.us> <mailman.5001.1388976943.18130.python-list@python.org> <roy-7ED5DF.23241105012014@news.panix.com> <CAPTjJmqNZyuvVvBu1zD7Ht7YySZ9weDLiOdL=6TNKHhfsqqH7g@mail.gmail.com> <laf35j$96i$1@ger.gmane.org> <20140106144218.225787b3@bigbox.christie.dr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-2-98-207-36.as13285.net
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0
In-Reply-To: <20140106144218.225787b3@bigbox.christie.dr>
X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15
Precedence: list
List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language <python-list.python.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-list>, <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/>
List-Post: <mailto:python-list@python.org>
List-Help: <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list>, <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=subscribe>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Message-ID: <mailman.5059.1389041257.18130.python-list@python.org>
Lines: 24
NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6
X-Trace: 1389041257 news.xs4all.nl 2942 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:54709
X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl
Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:63339

On 06/01/2014 20:42, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2014-01-06 22:20, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
>>>>>> data = b"\x43\x6c\x67\x75\x62\x61" # is there an easier way to
>>>>>> turn a hex dump into a bytes literal?
>>
>>   >>> bytes.fromhex('43 6c 67 75 62 61')
>> b'Clguba'
>
> Very nice new functionality in Py3k, but 2.x doesn't seem to have such
> a method. :-(
>
> -tkc
>

Seems like another mistake, that'll have to be regressed to make sure 
there is Python 2 and Python 3 compatibility, which can then be 
reintroduced into Python 2.8 so that it gets back into Python 3.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence