Changing string to byte type in Python 2.7

Question

In python 3.2, i can change the type of an object easily. For example :

x=0
print(type (x))
x=bytes(0)
print(type (x))

it will give me this

Answer 1

In Python 2.x, bytes is just an alias for str, so everything works as expected. Moreover, you are not changing the type of any objects here – you are merely rebinding the name x to a different object.