February 2024
Beginner
352 pages
8h 16m
English
book
Learn Python the Hard Way: A Deceptively Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly Beautiful World of Computers and Data Science, 5th Edition
by Zed A. Shaw
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Exercise 22
Strings, Bytes, and Character Encodings
To do this exercise you’ll need to download a text file that I’ve written named languages.txt. This file was created with a list of human languages to demonstrate a few interesting concepts:
How modern computers store human languages for display and processing and how Python 3 calls these
stringsHow you must “encode” and “decode” Python’s strings into a type called
bytesHow to handle errors in your string and byte handling
How to read code and find out what it means even if you’ve never seen it before
You can get this file by doing a right click with your mouse and selecting “Download” to download the file reliably. Use the link https://learnpythonthehardway.org/python3/languages.txt to ...
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