解码文本文件中的字符串

Question

I have a text file that is reading in another application's script. This how it looks like in notepad:

Одинцовская РЭС: М.О., Одинцовский район
Климовская РЭС: М.О., г.о. Подольск
Кульшовская РЭС: М.О., г.о. Подольск

This file is needed for two things: 1. Creating a dict of values, separated by ':'. I use this dict in another part of script 2. Allows user to select desirable value

Here is what user see when he launhes script. When a certain value is selected I have to use it in dictionary. But the problem is that selection is in unicode format (because of features of script building in ArcGIS) while the dictionary's keys are str . So I need a value in dictionary which looks like '\\xce\\xe4\\xe8\\xed\\xf6\\xee\\xe2\\xf1\\xea\\xe0\\xff \\xd0\\xdd\\xd1' to be converted in unicode. But when I make .encode('utf-8') it throws an error

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xce in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Answer 1

This should work

>>> c = b'\xce\xe4\xe8\xed\xf6\xee\xe2\xf1\xea\xe0\xff \xd0\xdd\xd1'
>>> c
b'\xce\xe4\xe8\xed\xf6\xee\xe2\xf1\xea\xe0\xff \xd0\xdd\xd1'
>>> c.decode('unicode_escape')
'Îäèíöîâñêàÿ ÐÝÑ'

The b'' prefix denotes sequence of 8-bit bytes.

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