I'm doing the python challenge and trying to familiarize myself with python, so without looking at the answers, I tried using python's url reader to read the html and then find the letters needed. However in the code below I get an error, which was originally the python 3 urllib.request but after resolving it I get a new error:
<module> print ("".join(re.findall("[A-Za-z]", data))) File "C:\Python34\lib\re.py", line 210, in findall return _compile(pattern, flags).findall(string) TypeError: can't use a string pattern on a bytes-like object
Now I tried looking this error up on google, but all I got was about json, which I shouldn't need? My python isn't that strong, so maybe I am doing this incorrectly?
#Question 2 - find rare characters
import re
import urllib.request
data = urllib.request.urlopen("http://www.pythonchallenge.com/pc/def/ocr.html")
mess = data.read()
messarr = mess.split("--")
print ("".join(re.findall("[A-Za-z]", data)))
#Question 3 - Find characters in list
page = urllib.request.urlopen("http://www.pythonchallenge.com/pc/def/equality.html")
mess = page.read()
messarr = mess.split("--")
print ("".join(re.findall("[^A-Z]+[A-Z]{3}([a-z])[A-Z]{3}[^A-Z]+", page)))
