Question

I get the following string from database:

'23:45 \xe2\x80\x93 23:59'  

and the output should look like

'23:45 - 23:59'  

How can I decode this? I tried utf-8 decoding but no luck

>>> x.decode("utf-8")
u'23:45 \u2013 23:59'

Thank you

Answer 1

This is completely correct. The interactive python interpreter displaye the repr() of the string. If you want to see it as a proper string, print it:

>>> print '23:45 \xe2\x80\x93 23:59'
23:45 – 23:59