Python - converting sock.recv to string

Question

I\'m digging around with python and networking.

while True:
   data = sock.recv(10240)

This is definitely listening. But it seems to need

Answer 1

In Python 2.7.x and before, data is already a string. In Python 3.x, data is a bytes object. TO convert bytes to string, use the decode() method. decode() will require a codec argument, like 'utf-8'.