[Tutor] Printing byte arrays

[Alan Gauld]

On 07/03/2022 13:02, Ludo Joris wrote:

>>>> b = [int(e,2) for e in a]
>>>> b
> [0, 224, 224, 0, 224, 224, 32,...

>>>> c = bytes([int(e,2) for e in a])
>>>> c
> b'\x00\xe0\xe0\x00\xe0\xe0 \xc0...

In UTF8/ASCII decimal 32 is the space character.
I'm surprised you aren't getting other random characters
and numbers too. You just got 'lucky' in that the
only printable values were spaces.

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