How to convert python code character to human readable code

Question

I am currently using Google Vision API in python to detect Chinese character in an image, but I found google will return python source code (Such as \\xe7\\x80\\x86\\xe7\\xab\\x91) instead of some human-readable string.

How can I convert it to human-readable text with utf-8 format?

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Thanks all of your answer, may be I post my code is more easily for all of you. Here is my code, basically I try to convert the whole json return from GOOGLE Vision and save in a json file, however, it hasn't success.

try: code = requests.post(' https://vision.googleapis.com/v1/images:annotate?key= '+GOOGLE_API_KEY, data=params,headers=headers)

resultText = code.text.encode("utf-8")
outputFileName = image_path.split('.',1)[0]
outputDataFile = open(outputFileName+".json", "w")
outputDataFile.write(json.dumps(resultText))
outputDataFile.close()

except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: print('Request error')

Thank you

Answer 1

t = '\xe7\x80\x86\xe7\xab\x91'
t = unicode('\xe7\x80\x86\xe7\xab\x91', 'utf8')
# Output: 瀆竑

More detailed information about Unicode in here .

Answer 2

I finally solve this by using the below code. Thanks all of you

try: code = requests.post(' https://vision.googleapis.com/v1/images:annotate?key= '+GOOGLE_API_KEY, data=params,headers=headers) resultText = json.loads(code.text) outputFileName = image_path.split('.',1)[0] with open(outputFileName+".json", "w", encoding='utf8') as f: json.dump(resultText, f, ensure_ascii=False,indent=4) f.close() except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: print('Request error')

Answer 3

I assume you mean you have a literal string like \\xe4\\xb8\\x89 and you want to convert this into the character 三 .

It's very strange that there isn't a straightforward way to do this. The best i can come up with is:

s = '\\xe4\\xb8\\x89'
print(bytes.fromhex(s.replace('\\x', '')).decode('utf-8')) # prints 三