Python urllib error AttributeError bytes object has no attribute read

Question

Note  This is Python 3  there is no urllib2   Also  I ve tried using json loads    and I get this error    TypeError  can t use a string pattern on a bytes-like object   I get this error if I use json loads   and remove the  read   from response   TypeError  expected string or buffer      import urllib request import json  response   urllib request urlopen  http   www reddit com r all top  json   read   jsonResponse   json load response   for child in jsonResponse  data    children        print  child  data    title      Does not work    I have no idea why

User · Accepted Answer

Try this   jsonResponse   json loads response decode  utf-8

User · Answer

I got the same error  AttributeError   bytes  object has no attribute  read   in python3  This worked for me later without using json   from urllib request import urlopen from bs4 import BeautifulSoup  url    https   someurl   page   urlopen url  html   page read   soup   BeautifulSoup html  print soup prettify  latin-1

User · Answer

I m not familiar with python 3 yet  but it seems like urllib request urlopen   read   returns a byte object rather than string   You might try to feed it into a StringIO object  or even do a str response

User · Answer

Use json loads not json load    load loads from a file-like object  loads from a string  So you could just as well omit the  read   call instead

[python] Python; urllib error: AttributeError: 'bytes' object has no attribute 'read'

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