Updating Python 2 code for suitable output [duplicate]

Question

I had some Python 2 code as follows (pardon the indentation): def getZacksRating(symbol): c = httplib.HTTPSConnection("www.zacks.com") c.request("GET", "/stock/quote/"+symbol) response = c.getresponse() data = response.read() ratingPart = data.split('

')[1] result = ratingPart.partition("')[1] result = ratingPart.partition(b"<span")[0].strip() return result print(getZacksRating('AAPL')) But it getting printed as below: print(getZacksRating('AAPL')) b'Strong Buy' I don't wish to see the b' ' in my output. Just want to see strong Buy being printed. Select the correct answer from above options

Answer 1

Its very simple, Instead of return result, use return result.decode('utf-8') If you are a beginner and want to know more about Python the do check out the data science with python course