Convert int to "byte" in Python

Question

This is a somewhat strange question. I need to convert an integer id, such as 123456, to a byte in the format b'123456'. I'm not doing an actual conversion to bytes however, I'm just changing the format to look like a byte and be interpreted as one. So I literally need to do the following:

10 = b'10'

20 = b'20'

30 = b'30'

and so. I can't convert to a string because I need the results to be in bytes, and I can't do an actual byte conversion because

bytes([10]) == b'\n'

(and not

b'10'

).

Any help or advice on forcing this translation is very much appreciated!!

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Answer 1

Convert the int to a str then .encode into bytes:

>>> x = 123456
>>> bs = str(x).encode('ascii')
>>> bs
b'123456'

Convert int to "byte" in Python

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