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Subject: Re: "convert" string to bytes without changing data (encoding)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:08:24 +0200
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Peter Daum, 28.03.2012 10:56:
> 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")

If you can tell us what you actually want to achieve, i.e. why you want to
do this, we may be able to tell you how to do what you want.

Stefan