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by tyingq 3225 days ago
Sure...that's a different thing though. Python 3's choice to introduce new types and change behavior of existing types means no automated tool can really decide what to do.

The snippet I posted is a little different in that it runs on both Python 2 as well as 3, but the 2to3 tools choke on it.

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Ahh, yes, you're right.

I'm still irritated by this specific case because my code and documentation used s.encode("hex") often, and it took a while to fix them all. Especially as the original code used both str and unicode hex-encoded values, so I couldn't drop in binascii. I ended up adding a C extension function.