So rather than calling the Binary method on the retreived encrypted data, I think I can assume I have a utf-8 encoded byte array, and try and work with that.

In Python 3.x, byte strings and Unicode strings are separate data types, and it's important to be explicit when working with bytes to avoid encoding errors.

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So I have a program in Python for use on a Linux machine that's dealing with binary data flowing through what may be a Linux FIFO.I'm using Avinash Kak's BitVector to modify the data as it goes ...

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