[newbie] String to binary conversion

[Mok-Kong Shen]

Am 06.08.2012 22:59, schrieb Tobiah:
> The binascii module looks like it might have
> something for you.  I've never used it.

Thanks for the hint, but if I don't err, the module binascii doesn't
seem to work. I typed:

import binascii

and a line that's given as example in the document:

crc = binascii.crc32("hello")

but got the following error message:

TypeError: 'str' does not support the buffer interface.

The same error message appeared when I tried the other functions.

M. K. Shen