genutils.strings¶

Convert between string and bytes.

Some functions helping with string encoding and decoding.

genutils.strings.to_bytes(str_or_bytes, encoding='utf-8)')[source]¶

Take argument and return as bytes.

Parameters:	str_or_bytes (str or bytes) – argument to encode. encoding – the encoding to use if argument is of type str
Returns:	argument as bytes
Return type:	bytes

genutils.strings.to_str(str_or_bytes, encoding='utf-8')[source]¶

Take argument and return as unicode string.

Parameters:	str_or_bytes (str or bytes) – argument to decode. encoding – the encoding to use if argument is of type bytes
Returns:	argument as unicode string.
Return type:	str