Request Help With Byte/String Problem
Paul Rubin
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Tue Nov 29 21:29:51 EST 2016
Wildman <best_lay at yahoo.com> writes:
> names = array.array("B", '\0' * bytes)
> TypeError: cannot use a str to initialize an array with typecode 'B'
In Python 2, str is a byte string and you can do that. In Python 3,
str is a unicode string, and if you want a byte string you have to
specify that explicitly, like b'foo' instead of 'foo'. I.e.
names = array.array("B", b'\0' * bytes)
should work.
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