Python web-scraping error - TypeError: can't use a string pattern on a bytes-like object -

Python web-scraping error - TypeError: can't use a string pattern on a bytes-like object -

i want build web scraper. currently, i'm learning python. basics!

python code

import urllib.request import re htmlfile = urllib.request.urlopen("http://basketball.realgm.com/") htmltext = htmlfile.read() title = re.findall('<title>(.*)</title>', htmltext) print (htmltext)

error:

file "c:\python33\lib\re.py", line 201, in findall homecoming _compile(pattern, flags).findall(string) typeerror: can't utilize string pattern on bytes-like object

you have decode data. since website in question says

charset=iso-8859-1

use that. utf-8 won't work in case.

htmltext = htmlfile.read().decode('iso-8859-1')

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