Suppress/ print without b' prefix for bytes in Python 3
Solution 1:
Use decode:
print(curses.version.decode())
# 2.2
Solution 2:
If the bytes use an appropriate character encoding already; you could print them directly:
sys.stdout.buffer.write(data)
or
nwritten = os.write(sys.stdout.fileno(), data) # NOTE: it may write less than len(data) bytes