How do I convert a Python 3 byte-string variable into a regular string

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I have read in an XML email attachment with  bytes string part get payload decode False    The payload comes in as a byte string  as my variable name suggests   I am trying to use the recommended Python 3 approach to turn this string into a usable string that I can manipulate   The example shows    str b abc   utf-8      How can I apply the b  bytes  keyword argument to my variable bytes string and use the recommended approach   The way I tried doesn t work   str bbytes string   utf-8

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You had it nearly right in the last line  You want  str bytes string   utf-8     because the type of bytes string is bytes  the same as the type of b abc

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How to filter  skip  non-UTF8 charachers from array    To address this comment in  uname01 s post and the OP  ignore the errors   Code   gt  gt  gt  b  x80abc  decode  utf-8   errors  ignore    abc      Details  From the docs  here are more examples using the same errors parameter    gt  gt  gt  b  x80abc  decode  utf-8    replace     ufffdabc   gt  gt  gt  b  x80abc  decode  utf-8    backslashreplace      x80abc   gt  gt  gt  b  x80abc  decode  utf-8    strict     Traceback  most recent call last           UnicodeDecodeError   utf-8  codec can t decode byte 0x80 in position 0    invalid start byte      The errors argument specifies the response when the input string can   t be converted according to the encoding   s rules  Legal values for this argument are  strict   raise a UnicodeDecodeError exception    replace   use U FFFD  REPLACEMENT CHARACTER   or  ignore   just leave the character out of the Unicode result

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UPDATED   TO NOT HAVE ANY b and quotes at first and end How to convert bytes as seen to strings  even in weird situations   As your code may have unrecognizable characters to  utf-8  encoding  it s better to use just str without any additional parameters  some bad bytes   b  x02- xdfI    text   str  some bad bytes   2 -1   print text   Output   x02- xdfI  if you add  utf-8  parameter  to these specific bytes  you should receive error  As PYTHON 3 standard says  text would be in utf-8 now with no concern

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Call decode   on a bytes instance to get the text which it encodes   str   bytes decode

[python-3.x] How do I convert a Python 3 byte-string variable into a regular string?

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