bytes to string python

# utf-8 is used here because it is a very common encoding, but you
# need to use the encoding your data is actually in.
bytes = b'abcde'
bytes.decode("utf-8") 
'abcde'

>>> b"abcde"
b'abcde'

# utf-8 is used here because it is a very common encoding, but you
# need to use the encoding your data is actually in.
>>> b"abcde".decode("utf-8") 
'abcde'