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Bytes as Braille

UPDATE: Now on Github with more stuff including a neat input function Since Python3, I have been working with bytestrings that sometimes decode as ASCII or UTF strings ; the environment this lives in is mixed, as in some strings are expected to decode while some are are expected to not decode. Displaying those string as-is is not convenient, as quite a few Unicode symbols will not render correctly : since I work with all sort of human languages these are frequent so I wrote a very short function that would try to decode my bytestring and return “bytes” if it wouldn’t decode.

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