Convert unicode string to string [duplicate]

Question

I have these variables:

s1 = '\xd1\x98\xd1\x83\xd0\xbd'
s2 = u'\xd1\x98\xd1\x83\xd0\xbd'

How can I transform variable s2 to be same as s1 so that comparing both will return True.

Ooops, found the answer right here that solves the problem: stackoverflow.com/questions/11174790/… But why should I encode to Latin-1 when text is in Cyrillic? Or better, why doesn't s2.encode('windows-1251') work? — user2136786
– user2136786, Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 4:12
That looks to me to be UTF-8, u'\u0458\u0443\u043d', јун. — Chris Morgan
– Chris Morgan, Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 4:18
This is already posted in Stackoverflow. Check here: stackoverflow.com/questions/11174790/… — Vikram
– Vikram, Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 4:19

Victor Castillo Torres · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-21 04:28:44Z

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You can convert s1 to be the same as s2:

s1 = '\xd1\x98\xd1\x83\xd0\xbd'
s2 = u'\xd1\x98\xd1\x83\xd0\xbd'

s1 = s1.decode('unicode-escape')

answered Jun 21, 2013 at 4:28

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