Fix Python – Remove ‘b’ character do in front of a string literal in Python 3 [duplicate]

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Asked By – Panagiotis Drakatos

I am new in python programming and i am a bit confused. I try to get the bytes from a string to hash and encrypt but i got

b'...'

b character in front of string just like the below example. Is any way avoid this?.Can anyone give a solution? Sorry for this silly question

import hashlib

text = "my secret data"
pw_bytes = text.encode('utf-8')
print('print',pw_bytes)
m = hashlib.md5()
m.update(pw_bytes)

OUTPUT:

 print b'my secret data'

Now we will see solution for issue: Remove ‘b’ character do in front of a string literal in Python 3 [duplicate]

Answer

Decoding is redundant

You only had this “error” in the first place, because of a misunderstanding of what’s happening.

You get the b because you encoded to utf-8 and now it’s a bytes object.

 >> type("text".encode("utf-8"))
 >> <class 'bytes'>

Fixes:

  1. You can just print the string first
  2. Redundantly decode it after encoding

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