Python interpret bytearray as bytes

Question

I have a question regarding the interpretation of a string as bytes

Within python, I have the situation that one variable contains eg this value

"bytearray(b'\x13\x02US')" 

this is unfortunately due to the behavior of a module I am using. My question is, how could i get this string into bytes?

I have tried stripping away the "bytearray(b'" and the "')" at the end, and use.encode() as a function, but the result then is:

b'\\x13\\x02US'

Which clearly escapes the \ in order to prevent the interpretation as bytes.

How could i get this converted into

b'\x13\x02US'

instead though?

Thank you very much!

Answer 1

You could use.decode().replace('\\', '\'), this way it replaces the double slashes with single ones. Either attache it after your.encode() function or do it on your string seperately.