Converting a python string to bytes object is very simple in python 3.x. In this tutorial, we will use a simple example to show you how to do.
Preliminaries
string.encode(encoding='utf-8', errors=errors)
where:
encoding: the text encoding, it can be utf-8, gbk, gb2312 et al. You can get more in here.
errors: it can be
'backslashreplace' |
– uses a backslash instead of the character that could not be encoded |
'ignore' |
– ignores the characters that cannot be encoded |
'namereplace' |
– replaces the character with a text explaining the character |
'strict' |
– Default, raises an error on failure |
'replace' |
– replaces the character with a questionmark |
'xmlcharrefreplace' |
– replaces the character with an xml character |
https://docs.python.org/3/library/codecs.html#standard-encodings
Create a python string
string = "tutorialexample.com"
Convert python string to bytes with utf-8
bytes1 = string.encode('utf-8')
print(type(bytes1))
for i in range(len(bytes1)):
print(bytes1[i], end=" ")
The result is:
<class 'bytes'> 116 117 116 111 114 105 97 108 101 120 97 109 112 108 101 46 99 111 109
Convert python string to bytes with gbk
bytes2 = string.encode('gbk')
print(type(bytes2))
for i in range(len(bytes2)):
print(bytes2[i], end=" ")
The result is:
<class 'bytes'> 116 117 116 111 114 105 97 108 101 120 97 109 112 108 101 46 99 111 109