How to convert a "raw" string into a normal string?

If your input value is a str string, use codecs.decode() to convert:

import codecscodecs.decode(raw_unicode_string, 'unicode_escape')

If your input value is a bytes object, you can use the bytes.decode() method:

raw_byte_string.decode('unicode_escape')

Demo:

>>> import codecs>>> codecs.decode('\\x89\\n', 'unicode_escape')'\x89\n'>>> b'\\x89\\n'.decode('unicode_escape')'\x89\n'

Python 2 byte strings can be decoded with the 'string_escape' codec:

>>> import sys; sys.version_info[:2](2, 7)>>> '\\x89\\n'.decode('string_escape')'\x89\n'

For Unicode literals (with a u prefix, e.g. u'\\x89\\n'), use 'unicode_escape'.

python string python-3.x rawstring

This would work for Python 3:

b'\\x89\\n'.decode('unicode_escape')

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