Converting a scraped unicode string into regular Python strings [duplicate]

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this issue has been driving me crazy. I am scraping a webpage using the requests module. The string I get in return is this:

x = "\nM\\u00fcnster - Melbourne - New York\n\\ud83d\\udc7b kaptenandson"

I can't seem to be able to get it to output normally, neither on terminal, nor anywhere else (output files, etc.). The text contains an umlaut and two emojis but I am just not able to work with it – drives me crazy.

Further, I have read through the resources on unicode but they haven't been of any help in this case. Are there any other unicode / encoding tutorials in Python I can read?

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:46:34Z

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Figured it out! The string I got was javascript escaped. Pointing to the right answer here:

How do I decode escaped unicode javascript code in Python?

edited May 23, 2017 at 11:46

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Mark Tolonen Over a year ago

Link-only answer are discouraged. I closed as a duplicate instead.

Julius Over a year ago

Thanks @MarkTolonen!

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