Python TypeError on regex [duplicate]
TypeError: can't use a string patternon a bytes-like objectwhat did i do wrong??
You used a string pattern on a bytes object. Use a bytes pattern instead:
linkregex = re.compile(b'<a\s*href=[\'|"](.*?)[\'"].*?>') ^ Add the b there, it makes it into a bytes object(ps:
>>> from disclaimer include dont_use_regexp_on_html "Use BeautifulSoup or lxml instead.")
If you are running Python 2.6 then there isn't any "request" in "urllib". So the third line becomes:
m = urllib.urlopen(url) And in version 3 you should use this:
links = linkregex.findall(str(msg))Because 'msg' is a bytes object and not a string as findall() expects. Or you could decode using the correct encoding. For instance, if "latin1" is the encoding then:
links = linkregex.findall(msg.decode("latin1"))
Well, my version of Python doesn't have a urllib with a request attribute but if I use "urllib.urlopen(url)" I don't get back a string, I get an object. This is the type error.