如何将字节文字的txt文件读取为UTF-8字符串？

Question

I have a .txt file with lines like these:

b'Afrikaans'
b'\xe1\x8a\xa0\xe1\x88\x9b\xe1\x88\xad\xe1\x8a\x9b'
b'\xd0\x90\xd2\xa7\xd1\x81\xd1\x88\xd3\x99\xd0\xb0'

How can I turn these lines into UTF-8 strings so that the output is like these:

Afrikaans
አማርኛ
Аҧсшәа

I tried this but only got strings with the same values as the byte literals:

    with open("encoded.txt", "rb") as filename:
        line = filename.readline().strip()
        while line:
            print(line.decode("utf-8"))
            line = filename.readline().strip()

Answer 1

The lines are Python literals, so ast.literal_eval can parse them to Python byte strings:

import ast

with open('data.txt') as f:
    for line in f:
        print(ast.literal_eval(line).decode('utf8'))

Output:

Afrikaans
አማርኛ
Аҧсшәа