How to convert a "raw" string into a normal string?
This would work for Python 3:
b'\\x89\\n'.decode('unicode_escape')
If your input value is a str
string, use codecs.decode()
to convert:
import codecs
codecs.decode(raw_unicode_string, 'unicode_escape')
If your input value is a bytes
object, you can use the bytes.decode()
method:
raw_byte_string.decode('unicode_escape')
Demo:
>>> import codecs
>>> codecs.decode('\\x89\\n', 'unicode_escape')
'\x89\n'
>>> b'\\x89\\n'.decode('unicode_escape')
'\x89\n'
Python 2 byte strings can be decoded with the 'string_escape'
codec:
>>> import sys; sys.version_info[:2]
(2, 7)
>>> '\\x89\\n'.decode('string_escape')
'\x89\n'
For Unicode literals (with a u
prefix, e.g. u'\\x89\\n'
), use 'unicode_escape'
.