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 …

Jul 14, 2020 · I'd like to understand about python3's bytes and bytearray classes. I've seen documentation on them, but not a comprehensive description of their differences and how they …

Mar 3, 2009 · For your specific case of "run a shell command and get its output as text instead of bytes", on Python 3.7, you should use subprocess.run and pass in text=True (as well as …

Oct 9, 2019 · In short, the bytes type is a sequence of bytes that have been encoded and are ready to be stored in memory/disk. There are many types of encodings (utf-8, utf-16, windows …

Jul 11, 2015 · Fine for Python 2.5 or earlier, but the built-in bytearray is really the way to go if you want, er, a byte array.

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 …

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 …

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 …

With Python 2 on Windows, I found that writing a bytearray still converts \n to \r\n, making it unsatisfactory for binary data, if the "b" flag is not passed when opening the file.

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