cannot use string pattern on bytes like object code example

Example 1: TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

'Hello World'.encode()

Example 2: TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object

def fix_Plan(location):
    letters_only = re.sub("[^a-zA-Z]",  # Search for all non-letters
                          " ",          # Replace all non-letters with spaces
                          location)     # Column and row to search    

    words = letters_only.lower().split()     
    stops = set(stopwords.words("english"))      
    meaningful_words = [w for w in words if not w in stops]      
    return (" ".join(meaningful_words))    

col_Plan = fix_Plan(train["Plan"][0])    
num_responses = train["Plan"].size    
clean_Plan_responses = []

for i in range(0,num_responses):
    clean_Plan_responses.append(fix_Plan(train["Plan"][i]))