Program Runs but can't format the data

[canflyguy]

I'm new to this Python program so I'm experimenting and fighting with syntax and formatting.
I've managed to figure out how to make this program execute and stay running but I can't figure out how to eliminate extra characters in the received data.
When I run it, I get b'GET /8005551212&230' as a response. So how do I strip off the b'GET / and the ' on the end to end up with an editable string like 8005551212&230 or ulimately two strings of 8005551212 and 230 that I can then format into whatever arrangement of extra info that I may add? It gives an error when I leave the line that attempts to convert it to a string and strip off the extra characters: it gives me: TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

import socket, sys

host = ''               
port = 65432
socksize = 19

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.bind((host, port))
print("Server started on port: %s" % port)
s.listen(1)
print("Now listening...n")


while True:
    conn, addr = s.accept()
    data = conn.recv(socksize)
    string = data.strip('/') #this line doesn't work
    if not data:             #it gives me: TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
        x=1
    else:
        print(data)
        print(string)

 

[mikrom]

to get string from bytes use decode(), to get parts of the string you can use re.split()

example:

>>> import re
>>> data = b'GET /8005551212&230'
>>> data
b'GET /8005551212&230'
>>> data_str = data.decode()
>>> data_str
'GET /8005551212&230'
>>> data_lst = re.split(r"[/&]", data_str)
>>> data_lst
['GET ', '8005551212', '230']
>>> data_lst[1]
'8005551212'
>>> data_lst[2]
'230'
>>>