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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 18:46:09 +1100
From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: How to recover bytes function?
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On 13Nov2014 14:32, satishmlmlml@gmail.com <satishmlmlml@gmail.com> wrote:
>file = open('data.bin', 'rb')
>bytes = file.read()
>bytes
>b'\x00\x00\x00\x02spam\x00\x03?\x9d\xf3\xb6'
>records = [bytes([char] * 8) for char in b'spam']
>TypeError: 'bytes' object is not callable
>
>How to recover bytes function?

The best way is not to use "bytes" for something else when you know you will be 
using the builtin version as well. Using the same name for two things is 
generally a bad idea.

The second, and worse, way is to see the documentation for the "builtins" 
module.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

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