How to I decode this weird string using Python or Java

Question

I have an encoded string stored in my DB that kinda looks like this (altered for confidentiality):

\x7b22747c

How do I decode this string? (Using either Java or Python)

There is code elsewhere that used tobytes() function to decode it. But I don't own the code so I am not sure what it's doing.

Related: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2547349/what-does-x-mean-in-c-c — MC Emperor, Dec 21 '21 at 17:48
If it has an odd number of digits it's probably incorrect. But it looks like a simple representation of a binary value. If it's supposed to be a string, you need to find which encoding it is. — RealSkeptic, Dec 21 '21 at 17:49

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 21 '21 at 19:39

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The comments helped in looking in the right place.

Here is what worked for me:

bytes.fromhex('7b22747').decode()

So I just had to remove the \x and then just decode the remaining string which was an encoded hex string.

edited Dec 21 '21 at 19:39

Patrick Artner

answered Dec 21 '21 at 18:00

ritratt

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