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 …

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 …

Sep 3, 2022 · 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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

Dec 23, 2012 · Python uses "repr" as a fallback conversion to string. repr attempts to produce python code that will recreate the object. In the case of a bytes object this means among other …

I have read in an XML email attachment with bytes_string=part.get_payload(decode=False) The payload comes in as a byte string, as my variable name suggests. I am trying to use the …

57 In Python 3.5+, encode the string to bytes and use the hex() method, returning a string.

Jul 8, 2011 · The method binascii.hexlify() will convert bytes to a bytes representing the ascii hex string. That means that each byte in the input will get converted to two ascii characters.