Advanced Python
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What is the bytearray type and when would you use it over bytes?

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The correct answer is B) A mutable sequence of bytes, useful for in-place binary data manipulation without creating new bytes objects

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Correct Answer

A mutable sequence of bytes, useful for in-place binary data manipulation without creating new bytes objects

Explanation

bytearray is mutable; bytes is immutable. Use bytearray when building binary protocols incrementally to avoid creating many immutable bytes objects.

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