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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/12/2014 2:57 PM, Stephen J.
Turnbull wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:87r48cerkx.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp"
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<pre wrap=""> > But bytes already acknowledges an ASCII bias.
True, but that bias is implemented without use of encoding or
decoding. b'%d' % (123,) -> b'123' does require encoding, at the
very least in the sense of type change and serialization.</pre>
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b'%d' all by itself, even before using the % operator, does require
encoding, at the very list in the sense of type change and
serialization.<br>
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