Python 3.6带有Unicode字符和字节的乱码字符串

Question

So I am taking articles titles from the Common Crawl news repo using NewsPlease, but when I take the articles titles, but they are a mixture of normally encoded characters and Unicode bytes, and I am unable to get it encoded correctly. Taking one of the titles:

x = articles[800].title

If I call x in spyder, it returns:

'Las 10 canciones m\\xc3\\xa1s populares de la semana'

When I use print(x) I get:

Las 10 canciones m\xc3\xa1s populares de la semana

BUT if try to correctly encode it using: (As other posts suggest)

x.encode('latin1').decode('utf8')

It returns

'Las 10 canciones m\\xc3\\xa1s populares de la semana'

Which is obviously not correct.

Anyone have any suggestions? I am using Python 3.6 by the way

Answer 1

Found a solution to this:

x = 'this is a test of the Spanish word m\\xc3\\xa1s'
x = x.encode('latin1').decode('unicode_escape').encode('latin1').decode('utf8')
print(x)
'this is a test of the Spanish word más'