TypeError: write() argument must be str, not bytes code example

Example 1: python write request must be str not bytes

datafile = open(localfile, "w", encoding="utf-8")
datafile.write(page.text)
datafile.close()

Example 2: python elementTree tostring write() argument must be str, not bytes

>>> type(tostring(element, encoding="unicode"))
<class 'str'>