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bytestring en · NOUN

Etymology

From byte + string.

Meanings

1. A text string treated as a series of single bytes rather than a series of characters of possibly varying storage size.
   • Standard Python strings are really bytestrings, and a Python character, being such a string of length 1, is really a byte. 2005, Alex Martelli, Anna Ravenscroft, David Ascher, Python Cookbook:
   • However, the underlying file model of these approaches is that of Unix files (i.e., bytestrings), whereas we assume record-structured files with key-based access. 1994, Richard T. Snodgrass, Marianne Southall Winslett, Association for Computing Machinery. Special Interest Group on Management of Data, Proceedings (page 255)

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