Convert str with percents (url) to usual str [duplicate] - python

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Decode escaped characters in URL
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I have strings like C%2B%2B_name.zip which are supposed as url encoded. How to convert them to C++_name.zip?
Py 3.x.


For Python 3, you will need to use:
urllib.parse.unquote('C%2B%2B_name.zip')
See urllib.parse.unquote.


All you need is URL library
import urllib
print urllib.unquote('C%2B%2B_name.zip')
and if you have names with other characters (not only English), then you can add .decode('utf8')

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Hex to plain ASCII? Python 2.7.13 [duplicate]

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Decode escaped characters in URL
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Im trying to turn this:
%73%6c%61%70%72%69%73%65%40%6c%69%65%6e%6d%75%6c%74%69%6d%65%64%69%61%2e%63%6f%6d
into this:
slaprise#lienmultimedia.com
and my brain is exploding..
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you

Python 2.7.17 (should work for Python 2.7.13)
import urllib2
url = urllib2.unquote("%73%6c%61%70%72%69%73%65%40%6c%69%65%6e%6d%75%6c%74%69%6d%65%64%69%61%2e%63%6f%6d")
print(url)
# slaprise#lienmultimedia.com

You are trying to URL-decode that string, use urllib:
from urllib import unquote
url = unquote("%73%6c%61%70%72%69%73%65%40%6c%69%65%6e%6d%75%6c%74%69%6d%65%64%69%61%2e%63%6f%6d")
# url = slaprise#lienmultimedia.com

Changing string to ascii in python [duplicate]

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Convert a Unicode string to a string in Python (containing extra symbols)
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I need to convert word
name = 'Łódź'
to ASCII characters
output: 'Lodz'
I can't import any library like unicodedata.
I need to do it in clear python.
I've tried to encode than decode and nothing worked.

Well, a simple method would be to map and replace. This also does not require any special imports.
name = 'Łódź'
name=name.replace('Ł','L')
name=name.replace('ó','o')
name=name.replace('ź','z')
print(name)

Python print ascii character in string instead of value [duplicate]

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Decode HTML entities in Python string?
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I have a string "hello[ World]" and I want to convert it to "hello[World]"
I tried something like this:
a.encode("utf-8").decode("ascii")
I got back same string as input.

Try this:
import html
html.unescape("LASIX [FUROSEMIDE]")
This produces:
'LASIX [FUROSEMIDE]'

Parsing a URL using regular expression [duplicate]

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What's the u prefix in a Python string?
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I am trying to parse the 'Meghan' part from the line:
link = http://python-data.dr-chuck.net/known_by_Meghan.html
...with the following regex:
print re.findall('by_(\S+).html$',link)
I am getting the output:
[u'Meghan']
Why I am getting the 'u'?

It means unicode. Depending on what you'll do with it, you can ignore it for the most part, of you can convert it to ascii by doing .encode('ascii')

Conversion of strings like \\uXXXX in python [duplicate]

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Process escape sequences in a string in Python
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I receive a string like this from a third-party service:
>>> s
'\\u0e4f\\u032f\\u0361\\u0e4f'
I know that this string actually contains sequences of a single backslash, lowercase u etc. How can I convert the string such that the '\\u0e4f' is replaced by '\u0e4f' (i.e. '๏'), etc.? The result for this example input should be '๏̯͡๏'.

In 2.x:
>>> u'\\u0e4f\\u032f\\u0361\\u0e4f'.decode('unicode-escape')
u'\u0e4f\u032f\u0361\u0e4f'
>>> print u'\\u0e4f\\u032f\\u0361\\u0e4f'.decode('unicode-escape')
๏̯͡๏

There's an interesting list of encodings supported by .encode() and .decode() methods. Those magic ones in the second table include the unicode_escape.

Python3:
bytes("\\u0e4f\\u032f\\u0361\\u0e4f", "ascii").decode("unicode-escape")

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