Function: text.decode

Decodes given data to string, assuming the specified character set.

Each byte that cannot be correctly decoded using the specified charset is represented in the output by the \uFFFD codepoint.

Arguments

Arguments
`data`	`bytes` The input to be decoded.
`charset`	`string` The IANA charset name; e.g. `UTF-8`, `US-ASCII`, `ISO-8859-2`. Case-insensitive. Default: `UTF-8`.

data

bytes

The input to be decoded.

charset

string

The IANA charset name; e.g. UTF-8, US-ASCII, ISO-8859-2. Case-insensitive. Default: UTF-8.

The decoded text.

Exceptions
`ValueError`	If the charset is unsupported.

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Last updated 2024-04-05 UTC.