title: Can I get rid of this 'b' character in my print statement?
body: <p>I'm wondering what this <code>b</code> charcter is and why it's appearing. I'm also wondering if I can get rid of it while printing the array?</p>
  
  <p>Here's my example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>arr1 = np.array(['1', '2'], dtype = 'c')
  print("array:", arr1, "and its dtype is: ", arr1.dtype)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And here's the output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>array: [b'1' b'2'] and its dtype is:  |S1
  </code></pre>