How to convert between bytes and strings in Python 3?

Question

This is a Python 101 type question, but it had me baffled for a while when I tried to use a package that seemed to convert my string input into bytes.

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Answer 1

In python3, there is a bytes() method that is in the same format as encode().

str1 = b'hello world'
str2 = bytes("hello world", encoding="UTF-8")
print(str1 == str2) # Returns True

I didn't read anything about this in the docs, but perhaps I wasn't looking in the right place. This way you can explicitly turn strings into byte streams and have it more readable than using encode and decode, and without having to prefex b in front of quotes.