Print string after decode

[martinzeifang]

Hallo,

I have a small programm. In a function I receive date an decode it back to utf-8
the function returns the data:

def reliable_recv():
    data = ""
    while True: 
        try:
            data = data + target.recv(1024).decode('utf-8')
            return json.loads(data)
        except ValueError:
            continue

if I print the data it's printed like that:

b'this ist the text\nthis is more text'

If I try to

result = reliable_recv()
print(result.decode()) 

I get the error

Error:
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

so my question:
How can I print my data?

Thank you for your help

Martin