I have some escaped strings that need to be unescaped. I'd like to do this in Python.
For example, in python2.7 I can do this:
>>> "\123omething special".decode('string-escape')
'Something special'
>>>
How do I do it in Python3? This doesn't work:
>>> b"\123omething special".decode('string-escape')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
LookupError: unknown encoding: string-escape
>>>
My goal is to be abel to take a string like this:
s\000u\000p\000p\000o\000r\000t\000@\000p\000s\000i\000l\000o\000c\000.\000c\000o\000m\000
And turn it into:
"support@psiloc.com"
After I do the conversion, I'll probe to see if the string I have is encoded in UTF-8 or UTF-16.
解决方案
You'll have to use unicode_escape instead:
>>> b"\\123omething special".decode('unicode_escape')
If you start with a str object instead (equivalent to the python 2.7 unicode) you'll need to encode to bytes first, then decode with unicode_escape.
If you need bytes as end result, you'll have to encode again to a suitable encoding (.encode('latin1') for example, if you need to preserve literal byte values; the first 255 unicode code points map 1-on-1).
Your example is actually UTF-16 data with escapes. Decode from unicode_escape, back to latin1 to preserve the bytes, then from utf-16-le (UTF 16 little endian without BOM):
>>> value = b's\\000u\\000p\\000p\\000o\\000r\\000t\\000@\\000p\\000s\\000i\\000l\\000o\\000c\\000.\\000c\\000o\\000m\\000'
>>> value.decode('unicode_escape').encode('latin1') # convert to bytes
b's\x00u\x00p\x00p\x00o\x00r\x00t\x00@\x00p\x00s\x00i\x00l\x00o\x00c\x00.\x00c\x00o\x00m\x00'
>>> _.decode('utf-16-le') # decode from UTF-16-LE
'support@psiloc.com'