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I use python 2.7 and I'm receiving a string from a server (not in unicode!). Inside that string I find text with unicode escape sequences. For example like this: <a href = "http://www.mypage.com/\u0441andmoretext">\u00b2<\a> How do I convert those \uxxxx - back to utf-8? The answers I found were either dealing with &# or required eval() which is too slow for my purposes. I need a universal solution for any text containing such sequenes. Edit: <\a> is a typo but I want a tolerance against such typos as well. There should only be reaction to \u The example text is meant in proper python syntax

How to convert a String without separator to an ArrayList<Character> . My String is like this: String str = "abcd..." I know one way of doing this is converting the String to char[] first, and then convert the char [] to ArrayList <Character> . Is there any better way to do this? like converting directly? Considering time and performance, because I am coding with a big database. You need to add it like this. String str = "abcd..."; ArrayList<Character> chars = new ArrayList<Character>(); for (char c : str.toCharArray()) { chars.add(c); } use lambda expression to do this. String big_data = "big

I have a one dimensional String array that I want to convert into a one dimensional byte array. How do I do this? Does this require ByteBuffer? How can I do this? (The strings can be any length, just want to know how to go about doing such an act. And after you convert it into a byte array how could I convert it back into a String array? -Dan Array to Array you should convert manually with parsing into both sides, but if you have just a String you can String.getBytes() and new String(byte[] data) ; like this public static void main(String[] args) { String[] strings = new String[]{"first",

I'm already using color theme in my website, where, for example I have a standard hex color for link states regular/hover/active. Now I want to use color operations in LESS like color:darken(@base_color, x%); So my question is: If I know my base color and my output color after the 'darken' operation, how do I know what % to give the darken operation to produce my output color? eg: If i'm going from #952262 -> #681744 what would be my %? Maybe there's a site that does these conversions? Hopefully the answer is not 'Trial and error'. Has A Few Challenges and Caveats Normally, people do not use a

What's the best way to convert between LocalDate from Java 8 and XMLGregorianCalendar ? Converting from LocalDate to XMLGregorianCalendar : LocalDate date = LocalDate.now(); GregorianCalendar gcal = GregorianCalendar.from(date.atStartOfDay(ZoneId.systemDefault())); XMLGregorianCalendar xcal = DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendar(gcal); Converting back is simpler: xcal.toGregorianCalendar().toZonedDateTime().toLocalDate(); The LocalDate stores only year/month/day information. There is no time nor time-zone information in it. The XMLGregorianCalendar stores date (year/month/day)

I'm creating a Color Picker tool and for the HSL slider, I need to be able to convert RGB to HSL. When I searched SO for a way to do the conversion, I found this question HSL to RGB color conversion . While it provides a function to do conversion from RGB to HSL, I see no explanation to what's really going on in the calculation. To understand it better, I've read the HSL and HSV on Wikipedia. Later, I've rewritten the function from the "HSL to RGB color conversion" using the calculations from the "HSL and HSV" page. I'm stuck at the calculation of hue if the R is the max value. See the