Cannot use a string pattern on a bytes-like object in Python

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I have a program in python , that downloads stock data for the stock with the symbol AAPL. When i run this code , im getting

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cannot use a string pattern on a bytes-like object  in python

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import urllib

import re


import urllib.request as ur
s = ur.urlopen("http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/q?s=AAPL&ql=1")
sl = s.read()
print(sl)

#htmlfile = urllib.openurl("http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/q?s=AAPL&ql=1")


htmltext = s.read()


regex = '<span class="Fw(b) Fz(36px) Mb(-4px)">(.+?)</span>'
pattern  = re.compile(regex)

price = re.findall(pattern, htmltext)


print  (price)

What I have tried:

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Posted 5-Dec-16 14:31pm

forte74

Updated 5-Dec-16 21:36pm

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Jochen Arndt · Answer 1 · 2016-12-05T21:36:00

The object returned by urlopen() is a byte object because urlopen() can not determine the encoding of the byte stream. You have to determine the encoding first (dynamically or using a fixed one when knowing it) and decode the data.

Example for UTF-8: