Python: Convert Unicode-Hex-String to Unicode

Question

I have a hex-string made from a unicode string with that function:

def toHex(s):
    res = \"\"
    for c in s:
        res += \"%02X\" % ord(c) #at least 2          


        

Answer 1

This seems to work just fine:

binascii.unhexlify(binascii.hexlify(u"Knödel".encode('utf-8'))).decode('utf-8')

Comes back to the original object. You can do the same for the chinese text if it's encoded properly, however ord(x) already destroys the text you started from. You'll need to encode it first and only then treat like a string of bytes.