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From: Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Lossless bulletproof conversion to unicode (backslashing)
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Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:91296

I am missing something.  Why do you need unicode at all?  Why can you
not just keep your binary data as binary data?

I feel like I must be missing something obvious here ...

Laura