Python: convert string from UTF-8 to Latin-1

Question

I feel stacked here trying to change encodings with Python 2.5

I have XML response, which I encode to UTF-8: response.encode(\'utf-8\'). That is fine, but t

Answer 1

data="UTF-8 data"
udata=data.decode("utf-8")
data=udata.encode("latin-1","ignore")

Should do it.

Answer 2

Can you provide more details about what you are trying to do? In general, if you have a unicode string, you can use encode to convert it into string with appropriate encoding. Eg:

>>> a = u"\u00E1"
>>> type(a)
<type 'unicode'>
>>> a.encode('utf-8')
'\xc3\xa1'
>>> a.encode('latin-1')
'\xe1'

Answer 3

Instead of .encode('utf-8'), use .encode('latin-1').

Answer 4

If the previous answers do not solve your problem, check the source of the data that won't print/convert properly.

In my case, I was using json.load on data incorrectly read from file by not using the encoding="utf-8". Trying to de-/encode the resulting string to latin-1 just does not help...