Why are the string characters being printed as integer numbers?

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I have to analyze a code snippet and explain how it works, but I can’t figure out the output:

Code:

word_norm = 'mundo'.encode("utf8").lower()
for idx, value in enumerate(word_norm):
    print(idx, value);

Exit

0 109
1 117
2 110
3 100
4 111

I don’t understand the variable value value of the for cycle. Any idea what the whole value means? I was hoping to see each character of the word world.

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Documentation of the function encode() says that a returns array of bytes, so this is what you have, a collection of bytes, not of characters. Either you should not use this function or you should use one that turns into string again decode(), which may not be what I wanted to do.

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