Python bytes()

Returns a byte immutable object representing the given bytes of an object.

Syntax

bytes(source, encoding, error)

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Parameters

• source (optional): specifies the source to initialize the byte represented object.
• encoding(optional): specifies the encoding method of the object.
• errors (optional): specifies the action to take in case of error.

Example 1

Use bytes() to encode the string "Welcome to Codecademy!" to unicode utf-8 and print the number of bytes in the string:

print(bytes("Welcome to Codecademy!", "utf-8"))
print(len(bytes("Welcome to Codecademy!", "utf-8")))

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The output would be:

b'Welcome to Codecademy!'
22

Example 2

Use bytes() to encode the integer 3, and print the number of bytes in the integer:

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Example 3

Use bytes() to encode the list of integers [5, 6, 7], and print the number of bytes in the list:

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