how to return result of repr(str) back to str?

Question

r = 'ыыы'
a = repr(r)
print a
"'\\xd1\\x8b\\xd1\\x8b\\xd1\\x8b'"

a == r
False

How to get rid of double slashes? Should I decode or encode it somehow? I want make r back again from a

Answer 1

I think ast.literal_eval will do what you need:

from ast import literal_eval
r = 'ыыы'
a = repr(r)
print(a)
print(literal_eval(a) == r)