A bytearray is really an ASCII string, but there are some small but important differences between them and Unicode strings. The first thing is that, while you can uses indexing and slicing, a single ...

Moving from Python 2 to 3? Here's what you need to know about strings and their role in in your upgrade. An old joke asks "What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two ...

When you have byte sequences to work with it is tempting to simply write a for loop that processes each byte in turn. However, notice that there is no easy way to implement a shift operation on a ...

String handling is quite different between Python 2 and Python 3, largely because the latter is designed to handle Unicode natively. But those differences make it more difficult for Python-2-based ...