Using Micropython sockets I received a message which contained the following string:
b'xxx/yyy'
I don't know how the "b" got there, or what it is !!!
I can also enter this using an input statement
x = input('Enter:')
>>> b'xxx/yyy'
print(x)
>>> b'xxx/yyy'
print (len(x))
>>> 7
L = []
L = x.split('/')
>>> TypeError: can't convert 'str' object to str implicitly
There must be a simple explanation to this, but I can not see it.
Is this some new type of variable ???