Issue with invoking chardet with IronPython: 'Expected a bytes object, not an unicode object'

[chardet]

Issue with invoking chardet with IronPython: 'Expected a bytes object, not an unicode object'

[sigmavirus24]

If the string we're given isn't a byte string, then we have to encode it. However we choose to encode it will bias the detector. We need a raw byte string to give you accurate results. Can you explain what you were doing in requests such that chardet.detect received anything other than a bytestring?

[dan-blanchard]

@animenon Is this just standard Python 3.4? If so, then you probably passed a str object (what unicode became in Python 3) instead of a bytes object to chardet. Make sure that any files you're reading are being opened with mode set to 'rb' so that you'll get bytes instead of str.

[animenon]

I get this while invoking chardet from a python3.4 :

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\xyz\detectChar.py", line 3, in
result = chardet.detect(rawdata)
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\chardet__init__.py", line 25, in detect
raise ValueError('Expected a bytes object, not a unicode object')
ValueError: Expected a bytes object, not a unicode object

[animenon]

@dan-blanchard Thank you.