On 8/17/22 08:33, Stefan Ram wrote: > Tobiah <toby at tobiah.org> writes: >> I get data from various sources; client emails, spreadsheets, and >> data from web applications. I find that I can do some_string.decode('latin1') > > Strings have no "decode" method. ("bytes" objects do.) I'm using 2.7. Maybe that's why. Toby