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--- other:python:misc_by_jyp [2023/04/27 17:52] – [Data representation] Improved jypeter
+++ other:python:misc_by_jyp [2023/04/28 15:55] – [Data representation] Improved, started a Strings section jypeter
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 A few notes for a future section or page about about //data representation// (bits and bytes) on disk and in memory, vs //data format//
+==== Numerical values ====
   * Binary data representation of some numbers:
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   * Misc : ''md5sum''
+==== Strings ====
+  * Encoding, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII|ASCII]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode|unicode]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8|UTF-8]], ...
+  * Getting the binary representation of a string
+    * <code>>>> test_string = 'A B 0 1 à µ'
+>>> type(test_string)
+<class 'str'>
+>>> len(test_string)
+>>> test_string_bin = test_string.encode('utf-8')
+>>> test_string_bin
+b'A B 0 1 \xc3\xa0 \xc2\xb5'
+>>> type(test_string_bin)
+<class 'bytes'>
+>>> len(test_string_bin)
+>>> test_string_bin.hex('-')
+'41-20-42-20-30-20-31-20-c3-a0-20-c2-b5'
+</code>
 ===== Checking if a file/directory is writable by the current user =====