[FIXED] Convert bytearray to bytes-like object

Issue

In Python 3 I'm getting error TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'bytearray'

I have a bytearray, which looks like this:

print(my_ba)     # bytearray(b'}\x0e\x15/ow4|-')

If I enter this in the console it works:

>>> print(base58.b58encode(b'}\x0e\x15/ow4|-'))
2bKmhuGiGP7t8

But this gives an error, and I can't find out how to get the b'' string from the bytearray:

>>> print(base58.b58encode(my_ba))
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'bytearray'

I'm sure it's obvious, but how do I convert the bytearray to a string with a b prefix?

Solution

As Coldspeed put it in the comments, just pass a bytearray to a bytes call:

bytes(my_ba)

Answered By - jsbueno