I am making an asymmetrical cryptography system.
I want to be able to paste the encrypted message into the python script and then unencrypt it.
Here's the problem.
The encrypted message contains escape characters and is in bytes.
Encrypted message: b'\xa0\xcc&g\x82\x86\xb6\x18\x8bm\xd1\xa2\xa9?\x97xp\xcd\xb2P\x06u\x07a\x169x\xe8\x9f~\x891\x98H\x80\x15\xcdq\xa9\xba\xe0\x07\x0c\x9b\xc9\xe8\xd6\xa80+o\x02c\x98\x1ct%R\xdf})\xe2\xa3\xad\x8a\x9aZ\xd1\xb0\xbfe\x85\xf3\x1a1 \xad\xeb+3Pa\xder\x8ex?\xf7+\xf14 \xa0\xff\x05\x93\xc4\x1c(\x99\x9e\xa3VS\xd2\xa2\xa7\xae/Q\'\xde\xa3\xad\xe3\xb4!\xa1\x8a\xc1\x10\xe7\xf0\xbd2\xd0\x0f5\xa4@\xca,^(\x16N\x16E\xb9\x85\xd7\xf4\x89\t\x8c\x8b\x1a\x9d*\x97\xe5\xf6\xae\x93\x81(\x9b\x94\tq\x01\x04f@W\x14\x97=\x89-v\xf6\\\x15\x97\xe2S\x93}\xf4\x97\x83@d\x08KT\\"n+\x1d\xa2I\xea\x00/\x1d\xc3\x0c\xa5\xb7D\x1d\xff\xfa\x99\x9b\x13\xf0\x9b8/\r\xe2\xc6\xcdHM\x9e\x9e5+\xc9)1\xc8\x01\xf5by\xa6\xf4\xff\x9e[\x9cL\x14\xe7\xaa;\xc8Y\xe53\xcb\xd0.\xd5\xcf\xed\x1d\xd0\xff\xd1'
So, if i get the user input and convert it into a byte string, this will happen.
# assume user input is \xa0
user_input = input()
print(user_input.encode())
# Prints out \\xa0
This treats the \ as a literal, but I want it to treat it as in escape character.
Or to put it simply, how can I take "hello\nworld" from the user using the input method and print out
hello
world
instead of hello\nworld
This is what I have tried
print(input_str.encode())
# I get b'hello\\nworld'
decoded_str = input_str.encode().decode('unicode_escape')
print(decoded_str)
# I get 'hello\nworld'
decoded_str = input_str.encode().decode('unicode_escape').encode()
print(decoded_str)
# I get b'hello\nworld'
