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I'm trying to convert bytes from the recvfrom function to text but i get this error:

Error:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xac in position 4: invalid start byte

with different byte that gives the error.

The code I'm using is

import socket
import time

import struct
import sys

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_RAW, socket.IPPROTO_TCP)

while a:
    raw_data, addr = s.recvfrom(65565)
    print(raw_data.decode("utf-8"))

Can someone help?

The other side may be sending something that's different from utf8-encoded unicode. The solution is to know exactly what kind of data the other side of the socket is sending.