web3.py/docs/conventions.rst
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Conventions
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The Web3 library follows the following conventions.
Bytes vs Text
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* The term *bytes* is used to refer to the binary representation of a string.
* The term *text* is used to refer to unicode representations of strings.
Hexidecimal Representations
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* All hexidecimal values will be returned as text.
* All hexidecimal values will be ``0x`` prefixed.