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

If you want to convert any bytes, not just string converted to bytes:

with open("bytesfile", "rb") as infile:
    str = base64.b85encode(imageFile.read())

with open("bytesfile", "rb") as infile:
    str2 = json.dumps(list(infile.read()))

This is not very efficient, however. It will turn a 2 MB picture into 9 MB.