Question

I’d like to dump a simple Unicode string into an array of bytes, so I can refer to each as an int. Is this possible?

I’m looking to take a string u"Hello World" and convert it into UTF-8 and something that looks like this: `

[0x01, 0x02, ..., 0x02]

How can I do this efficiently?

Answer 1

Your question could mean two things: either encode the Unicode string using, say, UTF8 and getting a list of the resultant bytes, or getting a list of Unicode code points.

In the former case:

list_of_bytes = map(ord, my_unicode_string.encode('utf8'))

In the latter case:

list_of_code_points = map(ord, my_unicode_string)