Python - part of str [urllib3 data]
Question: I'm Trying to delete 2 chars from start of the str and 1 char from the end

    
    
    import urllib3
    target_url="www.klimi.hys.cz/nalada.txt"
    
    http = urllib3.PoolManager()
    r = http.request('GET', target_url)
    print(r.status)
    print(r.data)
    print()
    

And Output is

    
    
    200
    b'smutne'
    

I need to output be only "smutne", only this, not the " b' " and " ' "


Answer: When you have bytes, you'll need them to _decode_ it into a string with the
appropriate encoding type. For example, if you have a ASCII characters as
bytes, you can do:

    
    
    >>> foo = b'mystring'
    >>> print(foo)
    b'mystring'
    >>> print(foo.decode('ascii'))
    'mystring'
    

Or, more commonly, you probably have Unicode characters (which includes most
of the ASCII character codes too):

    
    
    >>> print(foo.decode('utf-8'))
    'mystring'
    

This will work if you have glyphs with accents and such.

More on Python encoding/decoding here:
<https://docs.python.org/3/howto/unicode.html>

In the particular case of urllib3, `r.data` returns bytes that you'll need to
decode in order to use as a string if that's what you want.

