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When I tried to get the content of a tag using "unicode(head.contents[3])" i get the output similar to this: "Christensen Sk\xf6ld". I want the escape sequence to be returned as string. How to do it in python?
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To convert Python Unicode to string, use the unicodedata. normalize() function. The Unicode standard defines various normalization forms of a Unicode string, based on canonical equivalence and compatibility equivalence.
Unicode Literals in Python Source Code Specific code points can be written using the \u escape sequence, which is followed by four hex digits giving the code point. The \U escape sequence is similar, but expects 8 hex digits, not 4.
To include Unicode characters in your Python source code, you can use Unicode escape characters in the form \u0123 in your string. In Python 2. x, you also need to prefix the string literal with 'u'.
Assuming Python sees the name as a normal string, you'll first have to decode it to unicode:
>>> name 'Christensen Sk\xf6ld' >>> unicode(name, 'latin-1') u'Christensen Sk\xf6ld' Another way of achieving this:
>>> name.decode('latin-1') u'Christensen Sk\xf6ld' Note the "u" in front of the string, signalling it is uncode. If you print this, the accented letter is shown properly:
>>> print name.decode('latin-1') Christensen Sköld BTW: when necessary, you can use de "encode" method to turn the unicode into e.g. a UTF-8 string:
>>> name.decode('latin-1').encode('utf-8') 'Christensen Sk\xc3\xb6ld' If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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