Question

When reading data across the network (i.e. from a url) in python 3, what method must be used to convert it to the internal format used by strings?

Answer 1

decode() is used to convert it to the internal format used by strings.

• The data from a specific URL is already encoded in a certain encoding scheme.
• decode() can convert the data from one encoding system to another.
• Syntax: decode ( encoding, error )
• decode() returns the original string obtained from the encoded string.