python - How to convert characters like x22 into a string?

Question

I have a string that looks like this:

"{\x22username\x22:\x229\x22,\x22password\x22:\x226\x22,\x22id\x22:\x222c8bfa56-f5d9\x22, \x22FName\x22:\x22AnkQcAJyrqpg\x22}"

as far as I understand x22 is ". So how could I convert this into a readable JSON with quotes around keys and values?

Answer 1

Decode from string_escape:

>>> import json
>>> value = "{\x22username\x22:\x229\x22,\x22password\x22:\x226\x22,\x22id\x22:\x222c8bfa56-f5d9\x22, \x22FName\x22:\x22AnkQcAJyrqpg\x22}"
>>> value.decode('string_escape')
'{"username":"9","password":"6","id":"2c8bfa56-f5d9", "FName":"AnkQcAJyrqpg"}'
>>> json.loads(value.decode('string_escape'))
{u'username': u'9', u'password': u'6', u'id': u'2c8bfa56-f5d9', u'FName': u'AnkQcAJyrqpg'}