tf.compat.as_text

Converts any string-like python input types to unicode.

Main aliases

tf.compat.as_str

Compat aliases for migration

See Migration guide for more details.

tf.compat.as_text(
    bytes_or_text, encoding='utf-8'
)

Returns the input as a unicode string. Uses utf-8 encoding for text by default.

Args
`bytes_or_text`	A `bytes`, `str`, or `unicode` object.
`encoding`	A string indicating the charset for decoding unicode.

Returns
A `unicode` (Python 2) or `str` (Python 3) object.

Raises
`TypeError`	If `bytes_or_text` is not a binary or unicode string.

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Last updated 2020-10-01 UTC.

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