May 3, 2018 · But avoid such string literals anyway. It creates Unicode string in Python 3 (good) but it is a bytestring in Python 2 (bad). Either add from __future__ import unicode_literals at …

Apr 19, 2014 · import base64 b = base64.b64encode(bytes('your_string', 'utf-8')) # bytes base64_str = b.decode('utf-8') # convert bytes to string Explanation: The bytes function …

Using encode() without an argument is not Python 2 compatible, as in Python 2 the default character encoding is ASCII. >>> 'äöä'.encode() Traceback (most recent call last): File …

Oct 3, 2022 · In Python 2, strings are byte sequences, and ASCII encoding is assumed by default. In Python 3, strings are assumed to be Unicode, and there's a separate bytes type that acts …

"str and bytes are 2 different classes" - In Python 3, yes. In Python 2, no. I repeat: Encode() returns an 8-bit string both under Python 2 and Python 3. It's called "str" in Python 2 and …

The easiest way to do it in Python 3.5 and higher is: >>> 'halo'.encode().hex() '68616c6f' If you manually enter a string into a Python Interpreter using the utf-8 characters, you can do it even …

Apr 9, 2011 · Python 3. In Python 3, the urllib package has been broken into smaller components. You'll use urllib.parse.quote_plus (note the parse child module) import urllib.parse safe_string …

Oct 15, 2019 · In the second case you do the reverse attempting to encode a byte string. Encoding is an operation that converts unicode to a byte string so Python helpfully attempts to …

Apr 22, 2014 · In simplejson (or the library json in Python 2.6 and later), loads takes a JSON string and returns a Python data structure, dumps takes a Python data structure and returns a …

According to the docs, the builtin string encoding string_escape: Produce[s] a string that is suitable as string literal in Python source code...while the unicode_escape: Produce[s] a string …