What is encode in python? And Why it is used?

Question

txt="my name is Ståle"
Print(txt.encode(encoding="ASCII", errors="backslashreplace"))

Answer 1

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The encode() method encodes strings using the provided encoding scheme. The language specifies the number of encoding techniques. UTF-8 will be used if no encoding is given. The encode() method in Python returns a string that has been encoded.

python String encode() converts a string value into a collection of bytes, using an encoding scheme specified by the user.

encoding: Specifies the encoding on the basis of which encoding has to be performed.

errors: Decides how to handle the errors if they occur, e.g ‘strict’ raises Unicode error in case of exception and ‘ignore’ ignores the errors that occurred. There are six types of error response

For more....
https://www.w3schools.com/python/ref_string_encode.asp