Benjamin Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: This is a side effect of ascii returning a python 2.x unicode object. The repr still gives a leading "u". The point of ascii is that it returns a unicode object with only ascii characters. See PEP 3138 for more information.
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