Fix: AttributeError: str object has no attribute decode. Did you mean: encode?[Python]

Error Example:

>>> data_str="some data string"
>>> data_str.decode("UTF-8")

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>

AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'. Did you mean: 'encode'?

You will get this error when you try to decode a string in Python which is already decoded.

Remember that the process of decoding is to convert the bytes to a string object. The bytes are encoded in a specific character encoding, such as UTF-8 or ASCII. When we do decoding these bytes are transformed into a string using the appropriate character encoding.

Example:

byte_data = b'Some data as bytes'
string_data = byte_data.decode('utf-8')

Fix:

The solution is simple, you do not need to use decode("UTF-8") or you meant to make the string as a byte string.

>>> data_str=b"some data string"
>>> data_str.decode("UTF-8")
'some data string'
>>> 

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