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[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup@xxxxxxxxx>]

Whether or not a chunk of data is "binary" or "text" is 100% in the eye of the beholder, not a property of how you opened the file.

If you load bonary image data you can str() it without problems in Python (not before you try and print() it of course :-)). Ie. this will not error:

  binary = load_png_data()
  s = str(binary)
  event.payload = s
  send_over_dbus(event)

And this is highly convenient for the Python programmer because both valid string and binary data can go in payload. If we use ints we have to jump through hoops to use strings correctly (mind unicode, not ascii)
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