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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:02:42 +1100
Subject: Re: "convert" string to bytes without changing data (encoding)
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Peter Daum <gator@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there any way to convert a string to bytes without
> interpreting the data in any way? Something like:
>
> s='abcde'
> b=bytes(s, "unchanged")

What is a string? It's not a series of bytes. You can't convert it
without encoding those characters into bytes in some way.

ChrisA