Markus Franz wrote: > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > >> You get what the server sends. That is always binary - either it _is_ a >> binary file, or maybe in an unknown encoding. > > And how can I convert those binary data to a "normal" string with > "normal" characters?
There is no "normal" - it's just bytes, and a string is just bytes. No difference, no translation necessary. As others have said: look into the http header what the server is trying to transmit - maybe an image. The mimetype header is telling you that. Or use wget to fetch the url and look what you get - it shouldn't look different. -- Regards, Diez B. Roggisch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
