Craig McQueen <ces-...@mcqueen.id.au> added the comment:

I think I see now--it accepts Unicode input, but converts it back to
bytes internally using the ASCII codec. So it works as long as the
Unicode input contains on ASCII characters. That's a gotcha.

It appears that it's been fixed in Python 3.x, judging by the documentation.

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versions: +Python 2.4, Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 2.7

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