TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str' - python 2 to 3

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Answer 1

You should encode str into bytes.

data_string = os.environ['INTRINIO_USER'] + ":" + os.environ['INTRINIO_PASSWORD']

data_bytes = data_string.encode("utf-8")

base64.b64encode(data_bytes)