[Python-Dev] Unifying Long Integers and Integers: baseint

[Greg Ewing]

Martin:

> Now, it would also "work" if it were a character string, which
> then gets converted to a byte string using the system default
> encoding

Or the encoding associated with the file object, which
could be set to ascii, either by default or explicitly.

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