The byte_encoding option controls the encoding used for printing byte-like types in a DataFrame. The default is Base16. The following encodings are supported:
- BaseX
X is a power of 2 (for example, 2, 8, 16).
- BaseY
Y is not a power of 2 (for example, 10 and 36).
- Base64M (MIME)
- ASCII
The from_bytes function is used to display byte-like types. See Teradata Vantage™ - SQL Functions, Expressions, and Predicates for more information on specifying arguments for FROM_BYTES.
Example: Default is Base16
>>> display.byte_encoding
'base16'
>>> DataFrame('byte')
byte varbyte blob
id
2 b'32616263' b'32616263' b'32616263'
1 b'31616263' b'31616263' b'31616263'
0 b'30616263' b'30616263' b'30616263'
Example: Set the value to ascii
>>> display.byte_encoding = 'ascii'
>>> DataFrame('byte')
byte varbyte blob
id
2 b'2abc' b'2abc' b'2abc'
1 b'1abc' b'1abc' b'1abc'
0 b'0abc' b'0abc' b'0abc'