Python how to decode unicode with hex characters

Question

I have extracted a string from web crawl script as following:

u\'\\xe3\\x80\\x90\\xe4\\xb8\\xad\\xe5\\xad\\x97\\xe3\\x80\\x91\'

I want to d

Answer 1

Just keep msg as string not unicode.

msg = '\xe3\x80\x90\xe4\xb8\xad\xe5\xad\x97\xe3\x80\x91'
result = msg.decode('utf8')