Python get rid of bytes b' '

import save

string = ""

with open("image.jpg", "rb") as f:
    byte = f.read(1)
    while byte != b"":
        byte = f.read(1)
        print ((byte))

I'm getting bytes like:

b'\x00'

How do I get rid of this b''?

Let's say I wanna save the bytes to a list, and then save this list as the same image again. How do I proceed?

Thanks!