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A simple reminder quickcheat about Python encoding and decoding with string and bytes
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In Python 3, this mental model is pretty straight-forward:
Encoding is the process of converting a str to a bytes object
Decoding is the process of converting a bytes object to a str
┏━━━━━━━┓ ┏━━━━━━━┓
┃ ┃ -> encoding -> ┃ ┃
┃ str ┃ ┃ bytes ┃
┃ ┃ <- decoding <- ┃ ┃
┗━━━━━━━┛ ┗━━━━━━━┛
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