Python provides specialized data types for manipulating binary data, including bytes, bytearray, and memoryview. This article focuses on the bytearray, which enables mutable, efficient handling of binary sequences. While bytes are immutable, bytearray allows in-place modifications. These data types are useful for various applications, such as processing custom file formats and low-level networking. Understanding their differences can enhance one’s capability to work with binary data effectively in Python.
While Python remains a high-level programming language, it exposes a few specialized data types that let you manipulate binary data directly should you ever need to.
The choice between bytes and bytearray boils down to whether you want read-only access to the underlying bytes or not. Instances of the bytes data type are immutable.
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