how to slice bytes object when i try to slice it give me int number?

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I am trying to get live tick from google finance site using urllib,request but it returns a lot of data but I want to select the only price so how do I select that without using loops **I want that thing from HTML ["INFY","Infosys Ltd","894.70","-0.90","chr"]

import urllib.request
response = urllib.request.urlopen('https://www.google.com/finance?q=NSE:INFY')
html = response.read()

Interesting dupe... you should probably look at those answers. — cs95, Sep 07 '17 at 09:36
FOR YOU INFORMATION GOOGLE FINANCE API STOP WORKING AS OF 6 SEP 2017 HTTP ERROR 404 — Lakhan Pahuja, Sep 07 '17 at 15:47

Right leg · Answer 1 · 2017-09-07T09:32:24.603

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Regarding the issue expressed in your title, response.read() will give you a bytes object. Convert it to a string to manipulate it more conveniently:

html = str(response.read(), encoding="utf8")

The encoding optional argument indicates the encoding of the text represented by the bytes object - most likely UTF-8.

edited Sep 07 '17 at 09:32

answered Sep 07 '17 at 09:24

Right leg

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@juanpa.arrivillaga Oh right I typed this in a hurry. Modifying this right away – Right leg Sep 07 '17 at 09:27
`I typed this in a hurry` why were you hurrying? :p – cs95 Sep 07 '17 at 09:32
now i have to look what position is price that i am looking for i think i will loop for the location of price – Lakhan Pahuja Sep 07 '17 at 15:51
any idea how to extract price from string – Lakhan Pahuja Sep 07 '17 at 16:11
@LakhanPahuja You should definitely ask a new question related to that precise new problem. – Right leg Sep 07 '17 at 16:18

how to slice bytes object when i try to slice it give me int number?

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