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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 recommended Python 3 approach to turn this string into 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 things …

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 · 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 …

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.

May 7, 2018 · Given a random byte (i.e. not only numbers/characters!), I need to convert it to a string and then back to the inital byte without loosing information. This seems like a basic task, but I ran in to...