Python Undo Unicode

Question

Let\'s say I have the following two variables:

bob1 = u\'bob\\xf0\\xa4\\xad\\xa2\'

bob2 = \'bob\\xf0\\xa4\\xad\\xa2\'

How can I get the va

Answer 1

Code points between U+0000 and U+00FF map to the same byte value in the ISO 8859-1 or Latin 1 encodings.

>>> u'bob\xf0\xa4\xad\xa2'.encode('latin-1')
'bob\xf0\xa4\xad\xa2'