We all listen to them, but do you know how the compression for an MP3 file actually works? [Portalfire] wanted to find out, while honing his Python skills at the same time. He’s been working on an MP3 ...

Those APIs are used by pickle and provide a great way to handle escaped bytes sequences in much the same way as str (bytes)/repr (bytes) works. In Python 2, these were used by the string_escape codec, ...