How come string.maketrans does not work in Python 3.1?

Question

I\'m a Python newbie.

How come this doesn\'t work in Python 3.1?

from string import maketrans   # Required to call maketrans function.

intab = \"aei         


        

Answer 1

Strings are not bytes.

This is a simple definition in Python 3.

Strings are Unicode (which are not bytes) Unicode strings use "..." or '...'

Bytes are bytes (which are not strings) Byte strings use b"..." or b'...'.

Use b"aeiou" to create a byte sequence composed of the ASCII codes for certain letters.