"Evaluate" string into it's true type using Python [duplicate]

Question

I'm personally looking for a way to convert a string which includes bytecode into a bytecode type but I'm also curious if it is possible to do this process for essentially any variable type without using eval.

Working example using eval:

a = "b'gAAAAABhI1vlZaaVcD7VcXpk5kEpqtn5ItujPJUnP92QgwUOc07ulG95YbCyn9M0zolk-z04GywKmGehChhrj27KA5BQVafQ8w=='"
print(type(eval(a)))

Output:

<class 'bytes'>

"any type"? That means reinventing eval(), with all its consequences. — Ulrich Eckhardt
– Ulrich Eckhardt, Commented Aug 23, 2021 at 8:49
Wow, I somehow didn't see that the same question was asked. Either way, ast.literal_eval is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! — Jimminer
– Jimminer, Commented Aug 26, 2021 at 4:55

U13-Forward · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-23 08:47:27Z

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You could solve it with str.encode:

>>> a = "b'gAAAAABhI1vlZaaVcD7VcXpk5kEpqtn5ItujPJUnP92QgwUOc07ulG95YbCyn9M0zolk-z04GywKmGehChhrj27KA5BQVafQ8w=='"
>>> a[3:-2].encode()
b'AAAAABhI1vlZaaVcD7VcXpk5kEpqtn5ItujPJUnP92QgwUOc07ulG95YbCyn9M0zolk-z04GywKmGehChhrj27KA5BQVafQ8w='
>>>

answered Aug 23, 2021 at 8:47

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