Python; urllib error: AttributeError: 'bytes' object has no attribute 'read'

Question

Note: This is Python 3, there is no urllib2. Also, I\'ve tried using json.loads(), and I get this error:

TypeError: can\'t use a string pattern on a bytes-         


        

Answer 1

Use json.loads not json.load.

(load loads from a file-like object, loads from a string. So you could just as well omit the .read() call instead.)

Answer 2

I got the same error {AttributeError: 'bytes' object has no attribute 'read'} in python3. This worked for me later without using json:

from urllib.request import urlopen
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url = 'https://someurl/'
page = urlopen(url)
html = page.read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
print(soup.prettify('latin-1'))

Answer 3

I'm not familiar with python 3 yet, but it seems like urllib.request.urlopen().read() returns a byte object rather than string.

You might try to feed it into a StringIO object, or even do a str(response).

Answer 4

Try this:

jsonResponse = json.loads(response.decode('utf-8'))