How can this simple Python 2 code be translated to Python 3? [Python Student]

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The answer on this post, https://stackoverflow.com/a/16175368/6448312 is failing to run for me on Python 3. I'm getting the error of -

#$>test2.py Traceback (most recent call last):   File "C:\Users\.\OneDrive\PROJECTS for fun\smartApp\test2.py", line 4, in <module>
for row in output.split('\n'): TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

I am using the same code they posted - https://hastebin.com/ubafadikos.py

It seems like I need to cast the string to a byte type, I've tried using, newOutput = bytes(output, 'utf-8') but that is failing too with the error message of

newOutput = bytes(output, 'utf-8')
TypeError: str() takes at most 1 argument (2 given)

I'm at a loss for what to try next :( I'm using Python 3.6.1, running the code on Python 2.7 works fine.

EDIT: Using newOutput = bytes(output) works

Your first error message looks like a Python 3 error message, but your second error message looks like a Python 2 error message. Something's really weird about how you're running this code. — user2357112
– user2357112, Commented Mar 25, 2017 at 6:19
@user2357112 Thanks for the comment, both outputs are from Python3. I took out the second argument as it said it didn't want more than 1 for newOutput = bytes(output, 'utf-8') and the code ran successfully. However I'm not sure if that's syntactically correct. — Ian Smith
– Ian Smith, Commented Mar 25, 2017 at 6:22

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:54:26Z

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Try for row in output.decode().split('\n')

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edited May 23, 2017 at 11:54

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answered Mar 25, 2017 at 6:27

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Ian Smith Over a year ago

Awesome, thanks. I really wish they could add some hints to Python error messages to point out things like this.

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