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Python - Struct unpack bytes to ascii characters but with accents

I am trying to unpack some bytes with struct.unpack() in Python.

struct.unpack("xb4s", b'\x00\x04G\xe9g\xe9')

But I get : (4, b'G\xe9g\xe9') instead of (4, Gégé). This code does not handle accents. What should I do to have accents ?

Solution

  • Your string was was encoded with cp1252, so decode it appropriately.

    In [3]: struct.unpack("xb4s", b'\x00\x04G\xe9g\xe9')[1].decode('cp1252')
Out[3]: 'Gégé'