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Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 16:24:46 -0800
From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:63734

Python 3 has a new method, __bytes__.  The docs say: Called by bytes() to compute a byte-string representation of an 
object. This should return a bytes object.

I must admit I'm not entirely clear how this should be used.  Is anyone using this now?  If so, how?

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~Ethan~