[Python-Dev] bytes.from_hex()

[Bill Janssen]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Bill Janssen wrote:
> 
> > bytes -> base64 -> text
> > text -> de-base64 -> bytes
> 
> It's nice to hear I'm not out of step with
> the entire world on this. :-)

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.

Bill