I have just migrate from python 2.x to python 3.x and the code below has stopped working.
#self.request is the TCP socket connected to the client
self.data = self.request.recv(1024).strip()
print "{} wrote:".format(self.client_address[0])
print self.data
words = self.data.split(',') //the problem seems to be here
Any idea how to fix this? thanks!
This happens because bytes in python 3 are not same as str. What the request.recv gives you is a bytes of data. You'd need to first convert it to str and then use it to split.
You can do an utf-8 decode. So something like -
self.data.decode('utf-8').split(',') should work.
How to convert between bytes and strings in Python 3? has a more detailed explanation.
