Python converts my 8-bit strings

[gradha at iname.com]

Hi.

When I for example fed string.split with an 8 bit string, all the 8 bit
characters get converted into what looks like utf-8 codes. How do I
convert later those escape sequences to single characters, or avoid split
and other functions doing the conversion?

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