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

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

lphuberdeau opened this issue 7 years ago · comments

Louis-Philippe Huberdeau commented 7 years ago

Following a change in pycares, the TXT records are now provided as byte strings. The change appears to be intentional.

This results in a behavior change for aiodns depending on if the library is using 2.2.0 or 2.3.0. I would expect the .text property to always return a string.

Saúl Ibarra Corretgé · Answer 1 · Thu Aug 03 2017 04:39:51 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Yes, it was intentional. The reason being that there are many TXT records out there with invalid UTF-8 characters in there, so we cannot make a string out of them. So, from 2.3.0 onwards, TXT records will always be bytes.