Peter Daum, 28.03.2012 11:43: > What I am looking for is a general way to just copy the raw data > from a "string" object to a "byte" object without any attempt to > "decode" or "encode" anything ...
That's why I asked about your use case - where does the data come from and why is it contained in a character string in the first place? If you could provide that information, we can help you further. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list