Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bytestring

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bytestring
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Example Sentences

"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."
"Standard Python strings are really bytestrings, and a Python character, being such a string of length 1, is really a byte."

Etymology

From byte + string.

Inflected Forms

bytestrings (plural)

Questions

What does bytestring mean?: A text string treated as a series of single bytes rather than a series of characters of possibly varying storage size.
Where does bytestring come from?: From byte + string.

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