Webpage Slices are Different from what is There

[TomD]

CVP, so no printed string slice takes the html one character at a time. It combines them into groups and adds apostrophes.

[cvp]

@TomD You can see the string is between b' '
And characters with \ are not printable: ex: \n = next line
Thus b'\n' is only one character "next line "

[TomD]

Thanks CVP. That has me onto something.
I am data scraping. Maybe better off using a package like beautifulsoup?

[cvp]

@TomD try this

st = tda.decode('utf8')
print(st)

And you will see that there are empty lines at begin, which are \n

[TomD]

It doesn't like
print (st)

[cvp]

@TomD try this script

import urllib.request
with urllib.request.urlopen("https://www.asx.com.au/asx/statistics/todayAnns.do") as response:
	tda=response.read()
st = tda.decode('utf8')
print(st)

[TomD]

I see so I could work on that utf8 more easily

[cvp]

@TomD st contains a string, thus yes, good luck

[TomD]

I much appreciate. You have helped me around an obstacle

[mikael]

@TomD, definitely recommend using BeautifulSoup or webview with Javascript. Latter especially if you are trying to scrape pages with dynamic content.