After upgrading to Python 3.5.2 urllib is returning extra characters

Asked Jan 20 '17 at 19:09

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I had to upgrade to python 3.5.2 to meet the requirements for another application. After I did I started having trouble with urllib results. The below code is returning "b'0'" but the 2.7 version returned just "0". How do I go back to just getting "0"?

Here is my code:

with urllib.request.urlopen('https://blockexplorer.com/api/addr/19hMEAaRMbEhfSkeU4GT8mgSuyR4t4M6TH/balance') as req:
                balance = req.read()
print(balance)

asked Jan 20 '17 at 19:09

PacketMagic

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`b'0'` is a `bytes` object. You can use [`decode`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#bytes.decode) to convert it to a string. – khelwood Jan 20 '17 at 19:11
Thank you that did the trick! – PacketMagic Jan 20 '17 at 19:26

After upgrading to Python 3.5.2 urllib is returning extra characters

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