"convert" string to bytes without changing data (encoding)

Wed Mar 28 20:02:37 EDT 2012

On 2012年3月28日 15:43:31 -0400, Ross Ridge wrote:
> I can in
> fact say what the internal byte string representation of strings is any
> given build of Python 3.

Don't keep us in suspense! Given:
Python 3.2.2 (default, Mar 4 2012, 10:50:33)
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-51)] on linux2
what *is* the internal byte representation of the string "a∫©πz"?
(lowercase a, integral sign, copyright symbol, lowercase Greek pi, 
lowercase z)
And more importantly, given that internal byte representation, what could 
you do with it?
-- 
Steven