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Unicode and Bytes Data Type

Explore how Python represents text using Unicode and handles binary data with the bytes type. Understand code points, encoding schemes such as UTF-8, and how to convert between strings and bytes. This lesson prepares you to work effectively with text and binary data in Python programming.

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Unicode

Unicode is a standard for the representation, encoding, and handling of text expressed in all scripts of the world.

It is a myth that every character in Unicode is two bytes ...