How to handle response encoding from urllib.request.urlopen() , to avoid TypeError: can’t use a string pattern on a bytes-like object

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As for me, the solution is as following (python3):

resource = urllib.request.urlopen(an_url)
content =  resource.read().decode(resource.headers.get_content_charset())

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