Odd placeholder or pre-statement on string declaration

Asked Jun 22 '20 at 03:03

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This is part of a code example I came across regarding the IOTA project. Python is new to me so I am trying to walk through each line. I got to this line and couldn't figure out why the "u" exists between the variable declaration and the string. I tested it independently with and without the "u" and the output is the same. Just trying to understand why it is there.

chars = u'9ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'

I also came across another example using the same structure but with the letter "b".

MySeed = b"WKQDUZTGFKSSLACUCHHLZRKZBHSDSCEBHKUPDLKFBQALEBKDMFRPUQGZRXAADPG9TSRTZGGBZOFRJCFMM"

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

edited Jun 22 '20 at 03:04

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asked Jun 22 '20 at 03:03

thruclarity

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`u` stands for Unicode and `b` stands for bytes. – Red Jun 22 '20 at 03:04
See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2464959/whats-the-u-prefix-in-a-python-string – Red Jun 22 '20 at 03:05
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Thank you, I tried searching but all I got back was string information, nothing about the data type. Sorry for the repeat question. – thruclarity Jun 22 '20 at 03:16

Odd placeholder or pre-statement on string declaration

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