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 sequence of …

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-1255), which …

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 …

I wanted to convert an object of type bytes to binary representation in python 3.x. For example, I want to convert the bytes object b'\x11' to the binary representation 00010001 in binary (or 17 in decimal).

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.

May 24, 2018 · 10 I am trying to understand what from_bytes() actually does. The documentation mention this: The byteorder argument determines the byte order used to represent the integer. If …

The ASCIIfication of 3 is "\x33" not "\x03"! That is what python does for str(3) but it would be totally wrong for bytes, as they should be considered arrays of binary data and not be abused as strings. …