bytestring
nounEtymology
From byte + string.
Definitions
A text string treated as a series of single bytes rather than a series of characters of…
A text string treated as a series of single bytes rather than a series of characters of possibly varying storage size.
- However, the underlying file model of these approaches is that of Unix files (i.e., bytestrings), whereas we assume record-structured files with key-based access.
- Standard Python strings are really bytestrings, and a Python character, being such a string of length 1, is really a byte.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for bytestring. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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