Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amaur...@gmail.com> added the comment: This has changed in python 3, and is even documented: http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/whatsnew/3.0.html#text-vs-data-instead-of-unicode-vs-8-bit (6th bullet)
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