Convert bytes to a string

Question

I\'m using this code to get standard output from an external program:

>>> from subprocess import *
>>> command_stdout = Popen([\'ls\', \'-l         


        

Answer 1

While @Aaron Maenpaa's answer just works, a user recently asked:

Is there any more simply way? 'fhand.read().decode("ASCII")' [...] It's so long!

You can use:

command_stdout.decode()

decode() has a standard argument:

codecs.decode(obj, encoding='utf-8', errors='strict')