Python: convert string from UTF-8 to Latin-1

Question

I feel stacked here trying to change encodings with Python 2.5

I have XML response, which I encode to UTF-8: response.encode(\'utf-8\'). That is fine, but t

Answer 1

Can you provide more details about what you are trying to do? In general, if you have a unicode string, you can use encode to convert it into string with appropriate encoding. Eg:

>>> a = u"\u00E1"
>>> type(a)

>>> a.encode('utf-8')
'\xc3\xa1'
>>> a.encode('latin-1')
'\xe1'