Python error: TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

Question

i'm working to a personal project and i'm confronting a error: TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

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I want to make this script that is trying to find into the file a input text. Thanks!

Solution

TypeError implies that there is a mismatch in the datatype required vs given data's type. The function requires input of type 'bytes' while the code inputs data of type 'str'.

To convert the input string into byte-like object use str.encode function.

>>> string = "abcdef"
>>> type(string)
<class 'str'>
>>> string = string.encode('ascii')
>>> type(string)
<class 'bytes'>

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[Martijn Pieters]

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