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Ayush Tiwari
Ayush Tiwari

Reputation: 59

Convert string converted byte back to string

I have some text written in text files, but accidentally they were written in byte format, e.g: b'hello'. When I try to read via python as a text file, I get the output as "b'hello'", but i need "hello". I tried to convert it by:

"b'hello'".decode('utf-8')

But this gives an error as str does not have decode method. Any help regarding this will be appreciated.

Following is an example of how the text files looks: enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

Views: 220

Answers (2)

Gcode
Gcode

Reputation: 154

your_byte_text = b'hello'
output = str(your_byte_text, 'utf-8')
print(output) # output: hello

Mentioned that your_byte_text is real byte data. Because if you run str(your_byte_text) the value will become "b'hello'"

one of the way to retrive string from file.

with open(file_path, 'r') as file:
    data = file.read()
    # the data is pure string like 'hello' already.

Upvotes: 1

Xyndra
Xyndra

Reputation: 118

Use b"hello" The b shouldn't be in the sting but before the string If you want to convert a string from a file, do exec(f"variable = b"{old_variable}"")

Upvotes: 0

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