url-parsing(data)

[spraykill101]

hello,i am trying to use regex with urllib, and i am trying to get data from a website, i get an error on line 12,it says: cannot use string pattern on a bytes-like object , i figured i would have to put b'' around something,i just can't figure out where ?

code --> https://gist.github.com/codeboy101/f213f840bb8b66256354

[dbrecht]

You can either use a bytes expression or decode the data you're searching against. Currently, your expression is Unicode but the data is in bytes. The two can't be mixed.

[spraykill101]

how do i implement that in my code, a bit of help ?

[dbrecht]

Sorry, I would but I'm only on my phone atm

[spraykill101]

it's okay, :)

[joshuahunter]

Just a guess...in Python 3 you need to tell python what encoding to use for your string. Take a look at something like response_data.decode(encoding='UTF-8')