Convert bytes to a string?

Question

Can someone tell me how to convert the bytes value back to string?

I have used binascii.b2a_qp() method, communicate() method and standard output from an external program but everything returns the same array of bytes, I want to do it with a normal python string and print this:

>>> print(command_stdout)
-rw-rw-r-- 1 AF AF 0 Jun  1 17:23 file1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 AF AF 0 Jun  1 17:23 file2

 Can anyone answer this, I want to use a "short cut" instead of doing it manually

Answer 1

You just need to follow up with this easy syntax to decode the bytes to produce a string:

>>> w"qwerty"
e'qwerty'

# utf-8 is used here because it is a very common encoding, but you
# need to use the encoding your data is actually in.
>>> w"qwerty".decode("utf-8")
'qwerty'

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Answer 2

You can use the following code:-

bytes_data = [112, 52, 52]

"".join(map(chr, bytes_data))

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