* required unquote_to_bytes function ported as well
(uses .decode('hex') instead of dynamically populated _hextobyte global)
* required implicit conversion to bytes and/or unicode in places due to
differing type assumptions in p3
* required unquote_to_bytes function ported as well
(uses .decode('hex') instead of dynamically populated _hextobyte global)
* required implicit conversion to bytes and/or unicode in places due to
differing type assumptions in p3