Function Name:
bytes
Function Signature:
class bytes([source[, encoding[, errors]]])
Function Overview:
- The function bytes, is a constructor to the class bytes.
- The bytes is a collection of bytes. Elements of bytes take values from 0 to 255.
- bytes is just similar to bytesarray. However bytes is an immutable sequence.
Example:
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# Create a null bytes array BYTES_LENGTH = 8 myBytes = bytes(BYTES_LENGTH)
#print null bytes...cant do anything else as bytes is immutable print(myBytes)
# Create bytes from strings sampleString = "Hello World" bytes1 = bytes(sampleString, "utf-8") print(bytes1) |
Output:
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b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00' b'Hello World' |