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String vs Bytecode in Python

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  1. Be careful that some functions return bytecode instead of string in Python 3.

  2. bytecode has similar APIs to str. Most string functions can be applied to bytecode as well.

String to Bytecode

In [1]:
"abc".encode()
Out[1]:
b'abc'

ByteCode to String

In [3]:
b"abc".decode()
Out[3]:
'abc'

References

https://opensource.com/article/18/4/introduction-python-bytecode

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