How to properly encode in Python?

Question

I am new to python and I am struggling with encoding

I have a list of String like this:

keys = ["u'part-00000-6edc0ee4-de74-4f82-9f8c-b4c965896224-c000.csv'", 
        " u'part-00001-6edc0ee4-de74-4f82-9f8c-b4c965896224-c000.csv'"]

I do this to encode

keys = [x.encode('UTF-8') for x in keys]

However I am getting "b" appended, the result being

[b"u'part-00000-6edc0ee4-de74-4f82-9f8c-b4c965896224-c000.csv'", 
 b" u'part-00001-6edc0ee4-de74-4f82-9f8c-b4c965896224-c000.csv'"]

I thought it would be simpler to just encode with utf-8

What am I doing wrong?

Does this answer your question? Python 3 - Encode/Decode vs Bytes/Str — qorka
– qorka, Commented Dec 18, 2019 at 0:20
How did you end up with that original list of strings in the first place? It looks like the result of a series of conversions went wrong. Also is this Python 2 or 3? — Selcuk
– Selcuk, Commented Dec 18, 2019 at 0:20
Its python3, I get from an external source, I have no control over — Yogi
– Yogi, Commented Dec 18, 2019 at 0:28

Selcuk · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-18 00:23:59Z

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You should first try fixing the method you use to obtain your original list of strings, but if you have no control on that, you can use the following:

>>> import ast
>>> [ast.literal_eval(i.strip()) for i in keys]

The result should be

[u'part-00000-6edc0ee4-de74-4f82-9f8c-b4c965896224-c000.csv', 
 u'part-00001-6edc0ee4-de74-4f82-9f8c-b4c965896224-c000.csv']

for Python 2, and

['part-00000-6edc0ee4-de74-4f82-9f8c-b4c965896224-c000.csv', 
 'part-00001-6edc0ee4-de74-4f82-9f8c-b4c965896224-c000.csv']

for Python 3.

answered Dec 18, 2019 at 0:23

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