'str' object has no attribute 'decode'. Python 3 error?

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00:00 'Str' Object Has No Attribute 'Decode'. Python 3 Error?
00:38 Accepted Answer Score 301
00:58 Answer 2 Score 57
01:17 Answer 3 Score 56
01:25 Answer 4 Score 75
01:43 Thank you

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 301

You are trying to decode an object that is already decoded. You have a str, there is no need to decode from UTF-8 anymore.

Simply drop the .decode('utf-8') part:

header_data = data[1][0][1]

ANSWER 2

Score 75

If you land here using jwt authentication after the PyJWT v2.0.0 release (22/12/2020), you might want to freeze your version of PyJWT to the previous release in your requirements.txt file.

PyJWT==1.7.1

ANSWER 3

Score 57

Begining with Python 3, all strings are unicode objects.

  a = 'Happy New Year' # Python 3
  b = unicode('Happy New Year') # Python 2

The instructions above are the same. So I think you should remove the .decode('utf-8') part because you already have a unicode object.

ANSWER 4

Score 56

Use it by this Method:

str.encode().decode()