Confusing output from executing Php in Python

Question

Why I get output with b and ''?

import subprocess

result = subprocess.run(['php', 'index.php'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, check=True)
print(result.stdout)

Output => b'Hello'

In Php I have just echo().

Possible duplicate of [What does a b prefix before a python string mean?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2592764/what-does-a-b-prefix-before-a-python-string-mean) — roganjosh, May 09 '18 at 21:11

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 09 '18 at 21:14

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result.stdout is a bytes object, and the bytes.__str__() methods returns its representation (see repr()).

Try with print(result.stdout.decode('utf-8')) to decode the bytes as UTF-8.

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