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bytestring

bytestring noun: a text string treated as a series of single bytes rather than a series of characters of possibly varying storage size.

Noun

bytestring (plural bytestrings)

  1. 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.1994, Richard T. Snodgrass, Marianne Southall Winslett, Association for Computing Machinery. Special Interest Group on Management of Data, Proceedings (page 255)
    • Standard Python strings are really bytestrings, and a Python character, being such a string of length 1, is really a byte.2005, Alex Martelli, Anna Ravenscroft, David Ascher, Python Cookbook

Forms of bytestring

pluralbytestrings

Origin of bytestring

From byte + string.

Questions about bytestring

What does bytestring mean?
Bytestring means a text string treated as a series of single bytes rather than a series of characters of possibly varying storage size.
What part of speech is bytestring?
Bytestring is a noun.
What is the plural of bytestring?
The plural of bytestring is bytestrings.

Words near bytestring in the dictionary

  1. bytecodes
  2. byter
  3. byters
  4. bytes
  5. bytesexual
  6. bytestring
  7. bytestrings
  8. bytewise
  9. bythitid
  10. bythitids
  11. bythograeid

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