Normally, in Python 2, I can do so using strings, because a string can contain any bytes, in any order. However, Unicode is quite strict about which bytes represent characters, in no small part ...

About the bytes object bytes vs str As you can see, we are using a bytes object (we use a b in front of our string literal) to store our string. This type will store the characters of the string as ...

In interop scenarios, it might be useful to be able to have a Python string referencing an existing buffer without copies (e.g. if the underlying char data is stored in NumPy/PyTorch tensors, ...