TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str' in python 3.5

Question

I am learning data scraping in python 3.5 and trying to find the existence of a word on website, i am getting error:

TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

 pyladies_source = uReq("http://pyladies.com")
 pyladies_source = pyladies_source.read()
'python' in pyladies_source

can you tell me the code for the solution, i not that proficient in python — Mayank Rastogi
In the future, please provide your imports when you use custom naming for imports. For example, show that you used from urllib.request import urlopen as uReq — user3483203

user3483203 user3483203 · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-18T16:28:44

pyladies_source = uReq("http://pyladies.com")
pyladies_source = pyladies_source.read()
'python' in str(pyladies_source) # Returns false in this case, at least when I ran it.

All you had to change was casting pyladies_source to a string so you can look for 'python'

TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str' in python 3.5

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