从字符串中取消转义unicode字符

Question

I have a string which contains unicode characters which looks like this,

 "u'type'` does not belong to `[u'item1', u'item2']" 

How would I unescape the unicode parts?

So that it prints out,

 "'type' does not belong to ['item1', 'item2']" 

Answer 1

You could use the replace method for the string

stringToModify = "u'type' does not belong to [u'item1', u'item2']"

stringToModify.replace("u'","'")

Answer 2

What you show here is actually a byte string displaying the representation of three Unicode strings (all of them containing only ASCII characters FWIW).

If you cannot change the code producing this string your only solution is re.sub() .