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.
An encoder is a sensor of mechanical motion that generates digital signals in response to motion. As an electro-mechanical device, an encoder is able to provide motion control system users with information concerning position, velocity and direction. There are two different types of encoders: linear and rotary.
+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.