Remove String Literals from Python Strings when writing a File

Question

I am writing some text to file in Python. The problem is that the string literals with extra singles quotes get written to the file. I want to avoid that.

I have a multiple language string which i first encode using

 my_string = str('other language string').encode('utf-8')
 file.open('my_file.txt', 'w', newline = '')
 file.write(my_string)

It saves the following output to the file

b'other language string'

I want the output to be only

other language string

Answer 1

You've opened the file in text mode, which will encode data for you. Just write the string directly without encoding:

file.write('other language string')

The default encoding for text files is UTF-8, but you can give the open() call a different encoding if you so wish.

Alternatively, open the file in binary mode with 'wb' instead of 'w' , encode manually like you did and write byte objects.