Python3 Error: TypeError: Can't convert 'bytes' object to str implicitly

Question

I am working on exercise 41 in learnpythonthehardway and keep getting the error:

  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File \".\\url.py\", line 72, in <         


        

Answer 1

urlopen() returns a bytes object, to perform string operations over it you should convert it to str first.

for word in urlopen(WORD_URL).readlines():
    WORDS.append(word.strip().decode('utf-8')) # utf-8 works in your case

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