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**Category:** Community Support\
**Tags:** pykx, imported\
**Created:** [May 20, 2024, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/pykx-pandas-read-html-fails-to-convert-string-to-html-table/13927 "2024-05-20T16:09:36Z")\
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**Author:**  [@jameswatt995](https://forum.kx.com/u/jameswatt995)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/pykx-pandas-read-html-fails-to-convert-string-to-html-table/13927/1 "2024-05-20T16:09:36Z")
[https://learninghub.kx.com/forums/topic/pykx-pandas-read\_html-fails-to-convert-string-to-html-table](https://learninghub.kx.com/forums/topic/pykx-pandas-read_html-fails-to-convert-string-to-html-table)
Hi
I have started using pykx within my kdb system .
Here's the issue:
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I cannot seem to be able to post an example html table, but it fails with any (you can generate a basic one on chatgpt).
This code works well with old embedPy.
Any ideas ?
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**Author:**  [@rocuinneagain](https://forum.kx.com/u/rocuinneagain)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2024, 9:12am UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/pykx-pandas-read-html-fails-to-convert-string-to-html-table/13927/2 "2024-05-21T09:12:31Z")
PyKX converts a q CharVector to Python NumPy array of bytes by default.
[https://code.kx.com/pykx/2.5/pykx-under-q/upgrade.html#functional-differences](https://code.kx.com/pykx/2.5/pykx-under-q/upgrade.html#functional-differences)
``` q).pykx.eval["lambda x: print(type(x))"][test];
q).pykx.eval[“lambda x: print(x)”][test];
[b’\<’ b’t’ b’a’ b’b’ b’l’ b’e’ b’\>’ b’\<’ b’t’ b’r’ b’\>’ b’\<’ b’t’ b’h’ …
`You can create a helper to convert to strings as you require:
`
q)b2s:.pykx.eval[“lambda x: x.tobytes().decode(‘UTF-8’)”]
q).pykx.print pd[`:read\_html]b2s[test]
[ First Name Last Name Age
0 John Doe 30
1 Jane Smith 25
2 Emily Jones 22]
```auto
```