How can I convert a sequence of bytes to a string using Python?
We can do this using Python’s [bytes.decode()
] method:
my_byte_sequence = b'Sample' my_string = my_byte_sequence.decode()
By default, this method will assume that the bytes sequence is encoded as UTF-8. To convert a bytes sequence with a different supported encoding, we can provide an argument to decode()
. For example, if our sequence is encoded as ASCII:
my_ascii_string = my_byte_sequence.decode("ascii")
Note that if the byte sequence contains invalid characters for the specified encoding, a UnicodeDecodeError
will be raised. In that case, you can try a different encoding.