Byte-operations.

[Jeff Epler]

In Python, "chr" gives a 1-byte string from a small integer, "ord" does
the reverse.  Strings are concatenated with "+" and substrings are taken
with the slice operator, s[pos1:pos2].

I'm not a visual basic expert, but it looks like these are the
operations the code below performs.

Jeff
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