[Generateds-discuss] Help - people_api.py example giving 'b' outputs

[Dewitte, D. W (US) <dan...@ba...>]

Good Morning,

I am starting to learn GenerateDS for a project and I am using your people_api.py example in the tutorial section 6.2.  Everything works after some finagling, but my output looks like this in the Spyder Console:

<peopleType>
    <person id="1">
        <name>b'albert'</name>
    </person>
    <person id="2">
        <name>b'betsy'</name>
    </person>
    <person id="3">
        <name>b'charlie'</name>
    </person>
</peopleType>

I am trying to figure out how to remove the "b" prefix from the names.  From everything that I can read is that the names are being represented as a byte object.  How do I remove the prefix?

I tried adding the <str>.decode("utf-8") in the for loop but that didn't work.

Any help would be appreciated,

Daniel DeWitte