Just a cautionary note from Python in a Nutshell about bytes: Avoid using the bytes type as a function with an integer argument. In v2 this returns the integer converted to a (byte)string because bytes is …

Mar 3, 2009 · Here, the function will take the binary and decode it (converts binary data to characters using the Python predefined character set and the ignore argument ignores all non-character set …

Jun 3, 2011 · Assuming Python 3 (in Python 2, this difference is a little less well-defined) - a string is a sequence of characters, ie unicode codepoints; these are an abstract concept, and can't be directly …

Dec 23, 2012 · In python3, a "bytes" object represents a sequence of bytes, a "string" object represents a sequence of unicode code points. To convert between from "bytes" to "string" and from "string" …

91 Say that I have a 4 character string, and I want to convert this string into a byte array where each character in the string is translated into its hex equivalent. e.g.

Apr 3, 2014 · 69 What exactly is a "bytestring" in Python? What is the bytes type, and how does it work internally? My understanding is that there are normal "ASCII strings", which store a sequence of …

Jul 14, 2020 · Note that the concatenated result takes on the type of the first argument, so a+b produces a bytes object and b+a produces a bytearray. Converting bytes and bytearray objects into strings …

Python 2 does indeed have a type for bytes, it's just confusingly called str while the type for text strings is called unicode. In Python 3 they changed the meaning of str so that it was the same as the old …

Encode () returns an 8-bit string in both cases. It's called "str" in Python 2 and "bytes" in Python 3, but both are 8-bit strings.

Mar 19, 2019 · If the idea is to return only 2-digit hex values, then this question implies the use of byte strings (i.e. Python 2 str or Python 3 bytestring), as there is no unequivocal transformation of a …