How to convert an output from a curl into a string object

Question

I'm doing a curl request that returns something like this :

b'{\n  "output": {\n    id": "11-222-33-44-5abcd6efg"\n  }\n}\n'

then I'm doing

id=re.sub("\{.*\: \"", "", output)
id=re.sub("\" *\}.*", "", id)

but i get : TypeError: can't use a string pattern on a bytes-like object

I'd like to convert the output into string maybe it would work then, or if you have any other idea, my goal is to get that id. Doing this in Python

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 26 '19 at 09:44

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If g is your binary string, g.decode("utf-8") will give you what you have asked.

edited Jul 26 '19 at 09:44

RomanPerekhrest

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answered Jul 26 '19 at 09:42

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 26 '19 at 09:44

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In my opinion, you should try


# utf-8 is used here because it is a very common encoding, but you
# need to use the encoding your data is actually in.

output = output.decode('utf-8')

How to convert an output from a curl into a string object

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