How to resolve “iterator should return strings, not bytes”

Question

I am trying to import a CSV file, using a form to upload the file from the client system. After I have the file, I\'ll take parts of it and populate a model in my app. However,

Answer 1

In python 3, I used:

import csv
from io import StringIO
csvf = StringIO(xls_file.read().decode())
reader = csv.reader(csvf, delimiter=',')

xls_file being the file got from the POST form. I hope it helps.