Remove 'b' character do in front of a string literal in Python 3

Question

I am new in python programming and i am a bit confused. I try to get the bytes from a string to hash and encrypt but i got

b'...'

b character in front of string just like the below example. Is any way avoid this?.Can anyone give a solution? Sorry for this silly question

import hashlib

text = "my secret data"
pw_bytes = text.encode('utf-8')
print('print',pw_bytes)
m = hashlib.md5()
m.update(pw_bytes)

OUTPUT:

 print b'my secret data'

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Answer 1

Decoding is redundant

You only had this “error” in the first place, because of a misunderstanding of what’s happening.

You get the b because you encoded to utf-8 and now it’s a bytes object.

 >> type("text".encode("utf-8"))
 >> <class 'bytes'>

Fixes:

Answered By: Pythonista

Answer 2

This should do the trick:

pw_bytes.decode("utf-8")

Answered By: krock

Answer 3

Here u Go

f = open('test.txt','rb+')
ch=f.read(1)
ch=str(ch,'utf-8')
print(ch)

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