Built-in Types — Bytearray Objects

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). bytearray objects are a mutable counterpart to bytes objects. There is no dedicated literal syntax for bytearray objects, instead they are always created by calling the constructor Creating an empty instance: bytearray() Creating a zero-filled instance with a given length: bytearray(10) From an iterable of integers: bytearray(range(20)) Copying existing binary data via the buffer protocol: bytearray(b'Hi!') As bytearray objects are mutable, they support the mutable sequence operations in addition to the common bytes and bytearray operations described in bytes-methods. Also see the bytearray built-in. Since 2 hexadecimal digits correspond precisely to a single byte, hexadecimal numbers are a commonly used format for describing binary data. Accordingly, the bytearray type has an additional class method to read data in that format A reverse conversion function exists to transform a by Attribution: Adapted from Python Documentation under PSF-2.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, removed long code blocks, and shortened it for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.