Get a clean string from an informal string representation

Asked Dec 13 '18 at 16:19

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I am having trouble splitting a string into lines. I receive a string that seems to be defined as

txt = str(b"line1 \n line2")

Which, as described here is transformed into the informal representation of the string.

It's like I am receiving a script defined as

txt = "b'line1 \n line2'"

How can I transform my data into

txt = "line1 \n line2"

Without doing something as ugly as

txt = txt[2:-1]

EDIT: Saw marked as duplicate but the other question does not seem to apply:

txt = str(b"line1\nline2")                                                                     
txt.decode('ascii')                                                                            
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-89-0ccdab40ee23> in <module>
----> 1 txt.decode('ascii')

AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

edited Dec 13 '18 at 16:43

asked Dec 13 '18 at 16:19

Be Chiller Too

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`b"line1 \n line2".decode()` – L3viathan Dec 13 '18 at 16:22
@L3viathan: `AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'` – Be Chiller Too Dec 13 '18 at 16:44
I didn't say decode the string, I said decode the bytestring. – L3viathan Dec 13 '18 at 17:26

Get a clean string from an informal string representation

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