[Python-Dev] bytes.from_hex()

[Greg Ewing]

Bill Janssen wrote:

> Well, I can certainly understand the bytes->base64->bytes side of
> thing too.  The "text" produced is specified as using "a 65-character
> subset of US-ASCII", so that's really bytes.

But it then goes on to say that these same characters
are also a subset of EBCDIC. So it seems to be
talking about characters as abstract entities here,
not as bit patterns.

Greg