Python3: Decode UTF-8 bytes converted as string

Question

Suppose I have something like:

a = \"Gżegżółka\"
a = bytes(a, \'utf-8\')
a = str(a)

which returns string in form:

b\'G\\xc5\\xb         


        

Answer 1

I found it. The simplest way to convert string representation of bytes to bytes again is through the eval statement:

a = "Gżegżółka"
a = bytes(a, 'utf-8')
a = str(a) #this is the input we deal with

a = eval(a) #that's how we transform a into bytes
a = str(a, 'utf-8') #...and now we convert it into string

print(a)