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  r68925 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-25 11:15:10 -0600 (Sun, 25 Jan 2009) | 5 lines

  fix building the core with --disable-unicode

  I changed some bytearray methods to use strings instead of unicode like bytes_repr
  Also, bytearray.fromhex() can take strings as well as unicode
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