>>> b = str.encode(y)
>>> type(b) >>> b b’Hello World!’
To alter from bytes to str, capitalize on bytes.decode().
>>> z = b”Hello World!”
>>> y = “Hello World!”
>>> type(z)

>>> type(y)

To alter from str to bytes, capitalize on str.encode().
>>> a = bytes.decode(z)
>>> type(a)

>>> a
‘Hello World!’