Meaning of bytestring | Babel Free

Definitions

A text string treated as a series of single bytes rather than a series of characters of possibly varying storage size.

Examples

“However, the underlying file model of these approaches is that of Unix files (i.e., bytestrings), whereas we assume record-structured files with key-based access.”

“Standard Python strings are really bytestrings, and a Python character, being such a string of length 1, is really a byte.”

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