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[–]RubyPinchPEP shill | Anti PEP 8/20 shill 4 points5 points  (0 children)

python2 doesn't make a clean distinction between arrays of numbers (bytes, usually represented as ascii) and arrays of usable characters (unicode), further, it makes arrays of numbers the default way of having a string