AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode' || related to django user creation

Question

I am getting the following error:

AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

This is my code:

from django.utils.encoding import force_bytes
from django.utils.http import urlsafe_base64_encode
seld.uid = urlsafe_base64_encode(force_bytes(user.pk)).decode()`

Answer 1

Since Django 2.2, urlsafe_base64_encode returns a string instead of bytes, so you should no longer call the decode method anymore:

seld.uid = urlsafe_base64_encode(force_bytes(user.pk))