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HTTPResponse object-JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'

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I 've been trying to update a small Python library called libpynexmo to work with Python 3. I 've been stuck on this function: def send_request_json(self, request): url = request req = urllib.request.Request(url=url) req.add_header('Accept', 'application/json') try: return json.load(urllib.request.urlopen(req)) except ValueError: return False When it gets to this, json responds: TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes' I read in a few places thatjson.loadYou shoshould pass objects (In this caseHTTPResponseObject) with.read()Attached, but it doesn' t work onHTTPResponseObjects. I'm at a loss as to where to go with this next, but being that my entire 1500 line script is freshly converted to Python 3, I don't feel like going back to 2.7. Json python-3.x python-3.4 nexmo Using improve this question Edited Aug 7'14 at 4: 01Emrakul3, 73152659 Asked Jun 5' 14 at 19: 59Chevron132129

5   See here for a solution: stackoverflow.com/questions/6862770 /... -Dano Jun 5' 14 at 20:03 Did you try passing it through 2to3? -Zmo Jun 5' 14 at 20:03 @ Zmo-Did it manually so I cocould learn more.-Chevron Jun 5' 14 @ Dano-Found that link earlier, but was unable to make his workaround apply to my situation. I am unable to use. readall () on my HTTPResponse object. -Chevron Jun 5' 14 at 20:26 2   @ Chevron, if you're trying to convert the json request object, then use this: json. loads (request. b. Sort ody. decode ('utf-8')-Anshuman Biswas May 28 '15 Show1More comment

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I recently wrote a small function to send Nexmo messages. unless you need the full functionality of the libpynexmo code, this shoshould do the job for you. and if you want to continue overhauling libpynexmo, just copy this code. the key is utf8 encoding. If you want to send any other fields with your message, the full documentation for what you can include with a nexmo outbound message is here Python 3.4 tested Nexmo outbound (JSON ): def nexmo_sendsms(api_key, api_secret, sender, receiver, body): """ Sends a message using Nexmo. :param api_key: Nexmo provided api key :param api_secret: Nexmo provided secrety key :param sender: The number used to send the message :param receiver: The number the message is addressed to :param body: The message body :return: Returns the msgid received back from Nexmo after message has been sent. """ msg = { 'api_key': api_key, 'api_secret': api_secret, 'from': sender, 'to': receiver, 'text': body } nexmo_url = 'https://rest.nexmo.com/sms/json' data = urllib.parse.urlencode(msg) binary_data = data.encode('utf8') req = urllib.request.Request(nexmo_url, binary_data) response = urllib.request.urlopen(req) result = json.loads(response.readall().decode('utf-8')) return result['messages'][0]['message-id'] Using improve this answer Edited Jun 29 '15 at 20: 51aereaux3161617 Answered Jun 6'14 at 1: 01miR393413

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Up vote30down vote	Facing the same problem I solve it using decode () ...rawreply = connection.getresponse().read()reply = json.loads(rawreply.decode()) Using improve this answer Answered Jul 1 '14 at 18: 41costas309123
	13   Can you explain why this is necessary? -Skaz Jun 26' 15 Add a comment

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I met the problem as well and now it pass import jsonimport urllib.request as urimport urllib.parse as parhtml = ur.urlopen(url).read()print(type(html))data = json.loads(html.decode('utf-8'))