meal, repast(noun) the food served and eaten at one time. meal(noun) any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times. meal(noun) coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse.
Encoders turn mechanical motion into an electrical signal that is used by the control system to monitor specific parameters of the application and make adjustments if necessary to maintain the machine operating as desired.
+1 for having a good argument and quotes from the python docs. Also unicode_string.encode(encoding) matches nicely with bytearray.decode(encoding) when you want your string back. â Serdalis Sep 28 '11 at 15:30. bytearray is used when you need a mutable object. You don't need it for simple strâbytes conversions.