What is the difference between a string and a byte string?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6224...

Accepted answer links:
[unicode codepoints]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode

Answer 2 links:
[MP3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3
[WAV]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV
[PNG]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_N...
[JPEG]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG
[ASCII]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
[UTF-8]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8

Answer 3 links:
[open]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functi...

Answer 4 links:
[algorithm for decoding UTF-8]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1543616

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