I recently changed from Python 2.5 to Python 3.0 rc2, and have
been trying to find out how to convert byte strings (b"example")
to unicode strings ("example"). I noticed that some of these had
changed in the latest version.
One reason for a conversion between the two is the urllib.request.urlopen()
feature, which requires the string to be unicode rather than bytes, or else
you would receive an AttributeError error about 'bytes' object having no
attribute 'timeout'. The read() attribute of the urllib.request.urlopen()
function returns a byte string, which means I can't parse for information
in the bytes string to use in a second urllib.request.urlopen() function unless
it was to be converted to unicode first.
Am I simply overlooking something, or is there a built in function for
converting bytes to unicode? It seems like a function could be created
pretty easily if it has already not, but there isn't much sense in
reinventing the wheel if the function is already there.
Thanks for your help.
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