re.search().TypeError: cannot use a string pattern on a bytes-like object

Question

import urllib.request
import re

f = urllib.request.urlopen('http://www.geekynu.cn/')
html = f.read()

title = re.search('<title>(.*?)</title>', html)
print(title)
#print(title.decode('utf-8')) //I had try to solve by this code.

[python 3.5] when I use re.search()to read the Web title,the error is hapen"TypeError: cannot use a string pattern on a bytes-like object", what should I do? THX!

Answer 1

re needs byte patterns (not string) to search bytes-like objects. Append a b to your search pattern like so: b'<title>(.*?)</title>'

Answer 2

If you could add html=html.decode('utf-8'), I think it will be ok.