In the code below, I always get a strange output that places b before every line. Just the letter b.
E.g. a sample output is like this:
[b'2017-06-01,15:19:57,']
The script itself is this:
from zipfile import ZipFile
with ZipFile('myarchive.zip','r') as myzip:
with myzip.open('logs/logfile1.txt') as myfile:
next(myfile)
print(myfile.readlines())
The archive has a single folder in it called "logs" and inside logs there are several text files, each with lines below an empty first line (hence the next(myfile)
It places the b before the data, no matter which file I try to read. If there are multiple lines in a file it outputs something like this:
[b'2017-06-01,15:06:28,start session: \n', b'2017-06-01,15:06:36,stop session']
Why is it placing the pesky b there?