Python String encode() Method

In this tutorial, you have learned the Python string encode() method to encode the string along with examples.
Python string encode() method is a string method that is used to encode the string using the specified encoding.

In the previous tutorial, we have seen the Python string upper() method to convert lowercase to uppercase.

Headings of Contents

1 Python String encode() Method
2 Syntax
3 Parameter:
4 Python string encode example
- 4.1 Example
5 Conclusion:

The encode function in Python is a string function that is used to encode a string using specified encoding, If any encoding not specified, It will use UTF-8 by default.

Syntax

The syntax of python string encode method is:

Parameter:

python string encode method accepts two parameters.

encoding:- Optional. A string specifying the encoding to use. Be default UTF-8.
errors:- There are various types of errors.

backslashreplace – use the backslash instead of the character that could not be encoded.
ignore– ignore the character that can not be encoded.
namereplace– replaces the character with text explaining character.
strict – Default, raise an error of failure.
replace – replace the character with a question mark.
xmlcharrefreplace – replaces the character with an XML character

Python string encode example

Here we will use some examples to understand encode function in python.

Example

txt = "This is å educational portål"
print(txt.encode(encoding="ascii",errors="backslashreplace"))
print(txt.encode(encoding="ascii",errors="ignore"))
print(txt.encode(encoding="ascii",errors="namereplace"))
print(txt.encode(encoding="ascii",errors="replace"))
print(txt.encode(encoding="ascii",errors="xmlcharrefreplace"))

Output:

b'This is \\xe5 educational port\\xe5l'
b'This is  educational portl'
b'This is \\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE} educational port\\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE}l'
b'This is ? educational port?l'
b'This is å educational portål'

Conclusion:

In this tutorial, you have learned the Python string encode function to encode the string using a specified string.
if any encoding not specified, It will use by default UTF-8.

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