Data types in Python - Lecture 5- bytes and bytearray

bytes Data Type:

bytes data type represents a group of byte numbers just like an array.
The only allowed values in bytes data type are in range of 0- 256

example:
x=[10,20,30,40,50]
b=bytes(x)
type(b)----> bytes

 

 

You can save numbers in bytes datatype object but only in a particular range(0,256)

If you try to save a number out of this range you will get ValueError:

 

In Python if you talk about range(0,256) you mean the allowed numbers are 0 to 255 , Therefore even 256 is not allowed in bytes

bytes is IMMUTABLE
therefore item assignment is not allowed

If you try so, you will get TypeError

bytearray Data type:

bytearray is exactly same as bytes data type except that its elements can be modified.