I use chardet to test encode , but i got error

Question

import chardet 
a='haha'
print(chardet.detect(a))

TypeError: Expected object of type bytes or bytearray, got: < class 'str'>

I just type code from tutorial. I really can not figure out what wrong happended.

Answer 1

To convert a string to a byte...

Change:

a = 'haha'

To:

a = b'haha'

Answer 2

You can also use

a='haha'
print(chardet.detect(a.encode()))