export data from service now rest API using python - python-3.x

Question

I have to export incident data from service now rest API. The incident state is one of new, in progress, pending not resolved and closed. I am able to fetch data that are in active state but not able to apply correct filter also in output it is showing one extra character 'b', so how to remove that extra character?
input:
import requests
URL = 'https://instance_name.service-now.com/incident.do?CSV&sysparm_query=active=true'
user = 'user_name'
password = 'password'
headers = {"Accept": "application/xml"}
response = requests.get(URL,auth=(user, password), headers=headers)
if response.status_code != 200:
print('Status:', response.status_code, 'Headers:', response.headers, 'Error Response:', response.content)
exit()
print(response.content.splitlines())
Output:
[b'"number","short_description","state"', b'"INC0010001","Test incident creation through REST","New"', b'"INC0010002","incident creation","Closed"', b'"INC0010004","test","In Progress"']

Answer 1

It's a Byte literal (for more info. please refer https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#string-and-bytes-literals)
To remove Byte literal, we need to decode the strings,
Just give a try as-
new_list = []
s = [b'"number","short_description","state"', b'"INC0010001","Test
incident creation through REST","New"', b'"INC0010002","incident
creation","Closed"', b'"INC0010004","test","In Progress"']
for ele in s:
ele= ele.decode("utf-8")
new_list.append(ele)
print(new_list)
Output:
['"number","short_description","state"', '"INC0010001","Test incident
creation through REST","New"', '"INC0010002","incid
ent creation","Closed"', '"INC0010004","test","In Progress"']
Hope! It will work