Bytes() method in Python Built in Function

bytes method in built function returns the bytes as an object in the given function.This function is an immutable sequence of integers in the range of 0<=x<=256.

Syntax:

bytes(([source[, encoding[, errors]]]))

Parameters:

Bytes method has 3 parameters. These parameters are optional

Source: this is used to initialize the source of an array
Encoding: if the source is a string then this is used as encoding of the string
Errors: if the source is string, this parameter takes the action when the encoding conversion fails.

Table for different source parameters

Type of source	Description
String	This converts the string into bytes by using str.encode(). We have to provide encode and errors
Integer	This creates an array of provided size
Object	To initialize the byte array read only buffer object is used
Iterable	It creates an array whose size is equal to the Iterable count
No source(arguments)	It creates an array with size 0

Example-1:

Byte method using integer

x = bytes(2)
print(x)

Output:

Example-2:

Conversion of string into bytes

x = "There are many colours in the Universe"
text= bytes( x ,'utf-8')
print(text)

Output:

Example-3:

Converting list into bytes

text = [4,5,6,7,8]
x= bytes( text)
print(x)

Output: