3 Ways to convert bytes to String in Python

There are many ways in which we can convert bytes to String in Python, let's take a look at three such examples.


Example 1: Using decode() method
bytes_data = b"This is data in bytes"

string_data = bytes_data.decode("utf-8")

print(string_data)

Example 2: Using str() method
string_data = str(bytes_data, "utf-8")

Example 3: Using bytes.decode() method
string_data = bytes_data.decode("utf-8")


Documentation: 1. bytes.decode()

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#bytes.decode

2. str(): https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str

3. str.decode(): https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.decode

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