I am able to define a bytes string as follows:
string = b"0x340xEF"
I want to cast an already made string. Let us call it string into a bytes string. How do I perform this? bytes(string) is not giving me an equivalent result.
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You need to encode the string to be able to convert it to bytes:
string = "b0x340xEF".encode("latin-1")
print(string)
Output:
b'b0x340xEF'
answered Jul 1, 2022 at 10:45
3 Comments
tripleee
The
bytes call is superflous; string is already a bytes object (though its name is then misleading).tripleee
The question simply uses an ASCII string, so using
.encode("us-ascii") would probably be more correct. For any actually useful example, UTF-8 is almost certainly the wrong encoding.
ShadowRanger
@tripleee: Plain
"ascii" is the standard name (it's optimized to avoid actual codec lookup if you use that name). That said, if you want straight one-to-one mapping from any byte to Unicode characters with equivalent ordinals and back, "latin-1" provides that.