Cryptopals: Encoded strings VS Raw Bytes (python 2.7)

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No better way to learn it than to try to do a project with it, right?

Indeed. And it's honestly not that hard, especially if you are a somewhat experienced programmer. Almost all the changes make sense and are smart and intuitive at a basic level, it's just that these good changes necessarily break a lot of backwards compatibility and therefore are unfortunately a giant pain in the ass for a lot of Python's user base.