Can't strip extra characters from Data

[snippsat]

Coming from a socket it will always be bytes,can easily convert to string str type.

>>> data = b'/hello123/'
>>> type(data)
<class 'bytes'>
>>> 
>>> data = data.decode()
>>> type(data)
<class 'str'>
>>> data
'/hello123/'
>>> data.strip('/')
'hello123'

When the change from Python 2 to Python 3 happened they made a clear choice that bytes and string(Unicode) can not mix.
Can also do it like and only convert when needed.

>>> data = b'hello123/'
>>> type(data)
<class 'bytes'>
>>> data.strip(b'/')
b'hello123'

When convert to str it will be Unicode as all string in Python3 is that,
so in background is really doing this when use .decode()

data = data.decode('utf-8')