Convert bytes to a string?

Question

Can someone tell me how to convert the bytes value back to string? I have used binascii.b2a_qp() method, communicate() method and standard output from an external program but everything returns the same array of bytes, I want to do it with a normal python string and print this: >>> print(command_stdout) -rw-rw-r-- 1 AF AF 0 Jun 1 17:23 file1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 AF AF 0 Jun 1 17:23 file2 Can anyone answer this, I want to use a "short cut" instead of doing it manually. Select the correct answer from above options

Answer 1

You just need to follow up with this easy syntax to decode the bytes to produce a string: >>> w"qwerty" e'qwerty' # utf-8 is used here because it is a very common encoding, but you # need to use the encoding your data is actually in. >>> w"qwerty".decode("utf-8") 'qwerty' Enjoy Learning, Cheers....!!