Convert a Unicode string to a string in Python (containing extra symbols)
You can use the .encode()
method to convert a Unicode string to a string containing extra symbols in Python. Here is an example code snippet:
# Original Unicode string
unicode_string = "Hello, 世界!"
# Convert to string with extra symbols
extra_symbols_string = unicode_string.encode("utf-8")
print(extra_symbols_string)
This will output a bytes object b'Hello, \xe4\xb8\x96\xe7\x95\x8c!'
You can also use the method .decode()
to go back to unicode string,
original_string = extra_symbols_string.decode("utf-8")
print(original_string)
This will output Hello, 世界!
Note that the encoding format passed to .encode()
and .decode()
method should be same.