[Tutor] Python .decode issue

[Mark Lawrence]

On 10/02/2014 23:16, Pierre Dagenais wrote:
>
> On 14-02-08 12:55 AM, james campbell wrote:
>> header_bin = header_hex.decode('hex')
>> AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'
>
> What I understand is that you are trying to decode 'hex', which is a
> string. The interpreter is telling you that strings cannot be decoded.
> I do not know header_hex.decode(), but I suspect it's expecting an hex
> number, check it out.
>
> PierreD.
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"AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'" is saying that 
header_hex has no attribute decode, the string 'hex' doesn't enter into 
the equation.

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Mark Lawrence

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