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I've got a dictionary with keys as byte strings and values as byte strings and would like to print a cleaned up version of it. Here is an example pair:

{b'cf1:c1': b'test-value'}

I've tried doing json.dumps, but I get an error saying that 

TypeError: key b'cf1:c1' is not a string

I've also tried pprint. Are there any libraries or easy ways to do this?

Ideally the result would look like 

{
    'cf1:c1': 'test-value'
}
Billy Jacobson
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  • Please explain little more >>> {b'cf1:c1': b'test-value'} {'cf1:c1': 'test-value'} >>> a = {b'cf1:c1': b'test-value'} >>> a {'cf1:c1': 'test-value'} – aibotnet Aug 08 '18 at 20:39
  • `print({b'cf1:c1': b'test-value'})`? This works in python3 – Gillespie Aug 08 '18 at 20:40
  • `json.dumps` doesn't work because python dictionaries are not JSON. You would need to first convert your dictionary to JSON first. – Gillespie Aug 08 '18 at 20:41

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You can create a new dictionary with decoded keys and values like so:

x = {b'cf1:c1': b'test-value'}
y = {k.decode("utf-8"):v.decode("utf-8") for k,v in x.items()}

Then you should be able to display y as you desire.

Jacob Rodal
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