[issue41124] String with encode causing addition of 'b' in the beginning

2020-06-25 Thread Srinivas Sampath
Srinivas Sampath added the comment: if you look at my code, couple of lines below the print, i am actually doing the send over the socket. It took me awhile to figure out why the socket is failing. I understand that the byte array is represented with a 'b' infront as part of encode function b

[issue41124] String with encode causing addition of 'b' in the beginning

2020-06-25 Thread SilentGhost
SilentGhost added the comment: Your request is likely failing for entirely different reasons. What you've done is encoded a str object into bytes object, which is represented with as literal using b prefix. It isn't being sent over the socket. -- nosy: +SilentGhost resolution: -> no

[issue41124] String with encode causing addition of 'b' in the beginning

2020-06-25 Thread Srinivas Sampath
New submission from Srinivas Sampath : I am trying to run the attached code. when hard-coding the string in the URL and doing .encode, then the code works. However since i am requesting user input, i cannot hard-code and the code seem to add the 'b' character in the beginning causing the re