[Solved] Trying to select a random word from a website Python 3.6

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A correct version of you code – the problem was that you were having a bytes object instead of the str you probably expected.
I added a .decode('utf-8') to the content read from the website, and now the html is an str object.
You recieved the error because you were working on a bytes object (the word_chocie), as str.

Note that the b prefix you had in word_chocie (b'hello') is python’s mark that this object is of type bytes.

import random
import urllib.request
with urllib.request.urlopen('https://svnweb.freebsd.org/csrg/share/dict/words?view=co&content-type=text/plain') as response:
    html = response.read().decode('utf-8')

word_list = html.split()
word_chocie = random.choice(word_list)
print(word_chocie)

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solved Trying to select a random word from a website Python 3.6