解码utf8文字python

Question

I am trying to decode strings in a list of strings, for example 'caf\\\\xc3\\\\xab' what I want if this to be 'café' .

I tried some things but ran into problems.

when i do:

for i in range(len(words):
     words[i] = words[i].decode("utf8")

I still need to convert to byte type but how do I do this,

also when I do it like this I need to remove the double backslashes for this to work

b'caf\\xc3\\xab'.decode("utf8")

Answer 1

Suppose you have string as follow:

bef = 'caf\\xc3\\xab'

To convert to ' café ' you can do the following:

aft = bef.encode().decode('unicode-escape').encode('latin1').decode('utf-8')

Then print(aft) should show 'café'