[Tutor] html2text expects bytes-like object

[Alan Gauld]

On 08/11/2021 13:33, Julius Hamilton wrote:

> html2text.html2text(html)
> 
> But this returns:
> 
> TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

So try converting html to bytes:

> html2text.html2text(bytes(html,encoding='utf8'))

> In the documentation, it shows the above html2text method working for what
> appears to be a string.

Strings and bytes are easily confused visually.

> Why am I getting the response that I need to pass it a "bytes-like object"?

Probably because that's what it needs. A lot of low
level C library functions require a bytes object
rather than a {Python Unicode string. So, if the module
uses such functions, it probably wants a bytes object
passed to it.


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