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I believe I'm having some trouble with data type conversions. Currently I have an encrypted string stored in a database where the database column is of type bytea. When I fetch the record, Python ...

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 ...