convert bytes to utf8 python code example

Example 1: bytes to string python

# utf-8 is used here because it is a very common encoding, but you
# need to use the encoding your data is actually in.
bytes = b'abcde'
bytes.decode("utf-8") 
'abcde'

Example 2: convert \x unicode utf 8 bytes to \u python

>>> '\xc5\x81'.decode('utf-8')
u'\u0141'