String to Bytes Python without change in encoding

Question

I have this issue and I can\'t figure out how to solve it. I have this string:

data = \'\\xc4\\xb7\\x86\\x17\\xcd\'

When I tried to encode

Answer 1

You can use 'raw_unicode_escape' as your encoding:

In [14]: bytes(data, 'raw_unicode_escape')
Out[14]: b'\xc4\xb7\x86\x17\xcd'

As mentioned in comments you can also pass the encoding directly to the encode method of your string.

In [15]: data.encode("raw_unicode_escape")
Out[15]: b'\xc4\xb7\x86\x17\xcd'