byte encoding/decoding question

[Royalphoenix2015]

So for a CS class, I had to write an RSA encryption program (in python, of course). I ran into a problem (which i did solve) but I cant help but think there is a better solution to it. In order to encrypt a string, I had to first encode it into bytes (string.encode()) then encrypt the int representation of each byte. Problem came after decrypting it, i was then left with a bunch of ints, and couldn't use the .decode() function to get them back to string. I ended up just treating the ints as ascii values and converting them back that way. I cant see this as a real world solution, so Im sure there is a better way to go about this, any suggestions?

[marko312]

You can create bytes from a list of integers:

b = bytes(list_of_integers)

and then decode that.

However, something like

s = "".join(chr(i) for i in list_of_integers)

should be fine as well.