writing python 2 /3 compatible byte to string converters¶

In [1]:

import sys
sys.version

Out[1]:

'3.5.2 |Anaconda 4.1.1 (64-bit)| (default, Jul  5 2016, 11:41:13) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)]'

In [2]:

from builtins import bytes, chr
bytes_string = bytes(b'ABCD\xf9')
print(bytes_string)

b'ABCD�'

In [8]:

from builtins import bytes, chr
def convertBytesToString(bytes_string):
    """
    Parameters
    ----------
    bytes_string: bytes
    
    Returns
    -------
    converted: str
    
    """
    convert = "".join([chr(ints) for ints in bytes_string])

    return convert

In [9]:

from past.builtins import basestring 
bytes_str = bytes(b'ABCD\xf9')
converted = convertBytesToString(bytes_str)
print(type(converted))
print "is basestring:", isinstance(converted, basestring)
print(converted)

<type 'unicode'>
is basestring: True
ABCDù

In [1]:

import sys
sys.version

Out[1]:

'3.5.2 |Anaconda 4.1.1 (64-bit)| (default, Jul  5 2016, 11:41:13) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)]'

In [2]:

from builtins import bytes, chr
bytes_string = bytes(b'ABCD\xf9')
print(bytes_string)

b'ABCD\xf9'

In [3]:

from builtins import bytes, chr
def convertBytesToString(bytes_string):
    """
    Parameters
    ----------
    bytes_string: bytes
    
    Returns
    -------
    converted: str
    
    """
    convert = "".join([chr(ints) for ints in bytes_string])
    return convert

In [4]:

from past.builtins import basestring

bytes_str = bytes(b'ABCD\xf9')
converted = convertBytesToString(bytes_str)
print(type(converted))
print("is basestring:", isinstance(converted, basestring))
print(converted)

<class 'str'>
is basestring: True
ABCDù