How Do You Unescape Special Characters In A Python String?

Question

From spam\/eggs to spam/eggs

# This isn't working...
str = "spam\/eggs"
s = bytes(str, "utf-8").decode("unicode_escape")

print(s)
>>> spam\/eggs

# How to get "spam/eggs"

Answer 1

In python you can't use a '\' because python will think you will add something after it like '\t', '\n', etc. So you can use an extra backwards slash in the string: string = 'spam\\/eggs'

I don't think this is the most effiencient way to do this a differnt way but you can do this:

strs = 'spam\/eggs'
print(strs)
strs = strs.replace('\\','')
print(strs)

I just deleted the \ by replacing it with an empty string.