Convert unicode string to string

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: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11174790/convert-unicode-string-to-byte-string But why should I encode to Latin-1 when text is in Cyrillic? Or better, why doesn't `s2.encode('windows-1251')` work? — user2136786, Jun 21 '13 at 04:12
That looks to me to be UTF-8, `u'\u0458\u0443\u043d'`, `јун`. — Chris Morgan, Jun 21 '13 at 04:18
This is already posted in Stackoverflow. Check here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11174790/convert-unicode-string-to-byte-string — vkrams, Jun 21 '13 at 04:19

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 21 '13 at 04:28

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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 '13 at 04:28

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