On 10-1-2017 16:01, Donald Stufft wrote: >> TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not ‘bytes' > Huh, just tested, my original snippet works on Python 3.6 but fails on Python 3.5. My guess is that is due to an improvement in 3.6 mentioned here: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.6.html#json Irmen