Strange extra f added to bytes object

[Joel Goldstick]

On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Peter Pearson <ppearson at nowhere.invalid> wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Oct 2013 18:47:38 -0400, Robert Jackson wrote:
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>> I am very new to python
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> Welcome.
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>> . . .  I sometimes find the
>> when I construct the bytes object to write it adds an extra f to the first
>> byte.
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>> For example if I have b'\x03\x66\x02\x01\xaa\xbb' it evaluates
>> to b'\x03f\x02\x01\xaa\xbb', which doesn't even seem valid.
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>> Can anyone shine some light this?
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> "f" is the same as \x66; nothing has been changed.

really? I would expect that \x66 = 0110 0110 and f = 1111
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