In Python 2, you don't need to talk about byte strings explicitly, but by using them, you can make it very clear as to whether you're using bytes or characters.

In Python 2.6, converting a Python byte string (str) to a JArray of type JByte results in an array of 0x01 bytes instead of the original characters. The length matches, but all the bytes are 0x01 ...

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