Strings and Bytes¶

Strings contain a sequence of characters aka. text [1].

output = "Hello World"
type(output)

Since Python 3 Unicode is used for representing the characters.

Before they were just bytes in the memory [2]. Therefore Python 3 introduced the bytes type for being able to handle binary data too.

output = "Hello Wörld" # Unicode (contains a German umlaut)
type(output)

output = b"abc"
type(output)

output = b"Hello Wörld" # will raise an Exception