I use chardet to test encode , but i got error

Question

import chardet 
a='haha'
print(chardet.detect(a))

TypeError: Expected object of type bytes or bytearray, got: < class 'str'>

I just type code from tutorial. I really can not figure out what wrong happended.

Nothing has been encoded. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams May 17 '18 at 03:06 — Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams, May 17 '18 at 03:06

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered May 17 '18 at 04:49

6

To convert a string to a byte...

Change:

a = 'haha'

To:

a = b'haha'

answered May 17 '18 at 04:49

K-Log

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 15 '20 at 02:25

3

You can also use

a='haha'
print(chardet.detect(a.encode()))

edited Jul 15 '20 at 02:25

Machavity

answered Jul 15 '20 at 02:19

Hanbing Sun

2 Answers2