How to convert bytes to string in python

Question

I get the content from webpage like this

url = 'http://s0.icaipiao123.com/api/v2/rank/landing?lottery_key=shuangseqiu'
scode = requests.get(url).content

print(scode.decode('utf8'))

print(type(scode))

print(scode.decode())

The error is 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xeb in position 5: invalid continuation byte

How to convert bytes to string,thank you

Answer 1

Try this:

import codecs  
#scode data variable
codecs.decode(scode, 'UTF-8')