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Chapter 12 — String Encoding
Example:
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4350 is 0001000011111110 in binary and 10FE in hexadecimal.
b"\x10\xfe" is big-endian and
b"\xfe\x10" is little-endian
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The method to_bytes requires two arguments, The first is the width in bytes and the second is how to
encode the bytes. The second method from_bytes takes a collection of bytes, how it was ordered, and
will return an integer.
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3| # converting an integer to a "big-endian" collection of bytes
4| b = a.to_bytes(4, byteorder='big')
5| print(b)
6| print(int.from_bytes(b, byteorder='big'))
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8| # converting an integer to a "little-endian" collection of bytes
9| b = a.to_bytes(4, byteorder='little')
10| print(b)
11| print(int.from_bytes(b, byteorder='little'))
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b'\x00\x87\x19\x12'
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b'\x12\x19\x87\x00'
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Important Terms
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