When reading a file containing bytes using Python, you are often looking to read it like this b"\xd8\xa7\xd9\x84\xd8\xa8\xd9\x84\xd9\x8a\xd8\xba, for example o = open("bytes.txt", "rb") y = x.read() In fact, the exit is like this b"\\xd8\\xa7\\xd9\\x84\\xd8\\xa8\\xd9\\x84\\xd9\\x8a\\xd8\\xba, and when you try to decode it, you will get this back \xd8\xa7\xd9\x84\xd8\xa8\xd9\x84\xd9\x8a\xd8\xba, but it is a literal type, and whenever you code it, it will give you two slashback, and when you decode it, it takes you back to \xd8\xa7\xd9\x84\xd8\xa8\xd9\x84\xd9\x8a\xd8\xba. This problem I encountered when I was scraping a website and recving the data in bytes in a string type that included HTML. and it will face you in the future or you may have encountered before, I recently built a library to solve this problem where it is enough to pass it a byte with two slashback and it will decode it to the original text.

decode arabic utf-8

from inab import arabic_de str_bytes = "\\xd8\\xa7\\xd9\\x84\\xd8\\xa8\\xd9\\x84\\xd9\\x8a\\xd8\\xba" x = bytes(str_bytes, "utf-8") print(x) text = arabic_de(x) print(text)

decode english utf-16

from inab import eng_de str_bytes = "\\xff\\xfei\\x00n\\x00a\\x00b\\x00 \\x00l\\x00i\\x00b\\x00" text = eng_de(str_bytes) print(text)