What does the ‘b’ character do in front of a string literal?
To quote the Python 2.x documentation: A prefix of ‘b’ or ‘B’ is ignored in Python 2; it indicates that the literal should become a bytes literal in Python 3 (e.g. when code is automatically converted with 2to3). A ‘u’ or ‘b’ prefix may be followed by an ‘r’ prefix. The Python 3 documentation states: Bytes literals are … Read more