bytestring

plural bytestrings

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

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

   2005, Alex Martelli, Anna Ravenscroft, David Ascher, Python Cookbook

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   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.

   1994, Richard T. Snodgrass, Marianne Southall Winslett, Association for Computing Machinery. Special Interest Group on Management of Data, Proceedings (page 255)