Answer: How do I convert a Python 3 byte-string variable into a regular string?

answer re: How do I convert a Python 3 byte-string variable into a regular string?

Jun 25 '15

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You had it nearly right in the last line. You want

str(bytes_string, 'utf-8')

because the type of bytes_string is bytes, the same as the type of b'abc'.

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