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How Encoding Works in Python

Posted by Aviral Verma on Thu 21 June 2018 in Concepts • Tagged with ascii, unicode • 14 min read

We all know that the computer cannot store letters or numbers so we need some kind of mapping from these letters/numbers to bit strings (the only thing a computer can understand). One such known mapping is ASCII. If you're not sure about ASCII and Unicode, let Aviral give you an introduction ...