Converting a string to readable format in python

Question

What text format is this:
\xe1\x984a\x82@Z\xb4\x85\xd0
I would like to convert this to readable format. I attempted decoding with utf-16 but leads to error. Also encoding to ascii does not work.

Answer 1

From My understanding \xe1\x984a\x82@Z\xb4\x85\xd0 is look like bytes stream.

so you can convert in readable format like this.

>>> b'\xe1\x984a\x82@Z\xb4\x85\xd0'.decode('utf-8','ignore')
'4a@Z'

you byte stream string also give the output in integer format like this.

>>> int.from_bytes(b'\xe1\x984a\x82@Z\xb4\x85\xd0', byteorder='big', signed=True)
-143585681428579525294640

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