>You can use bytes() function:
>>>> bytes('%d' % 3, 'utf-8')
>b'3'>-m thanks this has solved everything. can i ask if this is an issue only in python 3 where sockets cant send strings? the docs state the argument is a string, but i believe that was for 2.7. I knew nothing about b'' or bytes() before today. thanks again
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