[Python-Dev] bytes.from_hex()

[Bill Janssen]

> If implementing a mime packer is really the only use case
> for base64, then it might as well be removed from the
> standard library, since 99.99999% of all programmers will
> never touch it. Those that do will need to have boned up

I use it quite a bit for image processing (converting to and from the
"data:" URL form), and various checksum applications (converting SHA
into a string).

Bill