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.. note::
- Encoding and decoding functions do not accept Unicode strings. Only bytestring
- and bytearray objects can be processed.
+ ``a2b_*`` functions accept Unicode strings containing only ASCII characters.
+ Other functions only accept bytes and bytes-compatible objects (such as
+ bytearray objects and other objects implementing the buffer API).
+
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.3
+ ASCII-only unicode strings are now accepted by the ``a2b_*`` functions.
+
The :mod:`binascii` module defines the following functions: