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Latot
Latot

Reputation: 307

Convert bytes data stored in string to bytes again

i have a string storing data of bytes, an example would be instead have b'Hi\x81y' i have an string with 'Hi\x81y'.

So, with the string, how is in utf-8 i can't read the real data..., and i can't found a way to transform the string expression back to the bytes form.

In some way i'm trying to do this:

data_str = 'Hi\x81y'
eval("b'{}'".format(data_str))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<string>", line 1
SyntaxError: bytes can only contain ASCII literal characters.

Saldy this example don't works and send an error, even worls if we write manually the code .

Any function i test to decode/encode/transform this fails, because python detect the string as utf-8 while is in bytes.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 660

Answers (2)

nosklo
nosklo

Reputation: 222802

To convert bytes into a string, use the decode method:

mystring = mybytes.decode('utf-8')

To convert back the string to bytes, use the encode method:

mybytes = mystring.encode('utf-8')

Upvotes: 0

H&#229;ken Lid
H&#229;ken Lid

Reputation: 23064

Not sure exactly what you mean, but you could try any 8 bit encoding.

>>> 'Hi\x81y'.encode('latin_1')
b'Hi\x81y'

Upvotes: 1

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