Python Undo Unicode

Question

Let's say I have the following two variables:

bob1 = u'bob\xf0\xa4\xad\xa2'

bob2 = 'bob\xf0\xa4\xad\xa2'

How can I get the value of bob1 to be the value of bob2? That is, how do I unroll the unicode formatting but keep the escapped hex value?

If I do this:

bob1.encode('utf8')
'bob\xc3\xb0\xc2\xa4\xc2\xad\xc2\xa2'

That's not right...

Help!

If it's your code that's producing the `bob1` stuff, the best advice is "Don't do that". It's a bug. — John Machin, Nov 24 '10 at 21:36

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 24 '10 at 21:28

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Code points between U+0000 and U+00FF map to the same byte value in the ISO 8859-1 or Latin 1 encodings.

>>> u'bob\xf0\xa4\xad\xa2'.encode('latin-1')
'bob\xf0\xa4\xad\xa2'

answered Nov 24 '10 at 21:28

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+1 minor nitpick: `ISO-8859-1` and `latin-1` are the same encoding; the latter is an alias – John Machin Nov 24 '10 at 21:33

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