I have
(Pdb) email
'\x00t\x00e\x00s\x00t\x00@\x00g\x00m\x00a\x00i\x00l\x00.\x00c\x00o\x00m\x00'
(Pdb) print email
[email protected]
I need to validate whether thie value is an email format, however, how can i convert this string to actual ascii string?
Seems like it's encoded with utf-16 encoding.
>>> '\x00t\x00e\x00s\x00t\x00@\x00g\x00m\x00a\x00i\x00l\x00.\x00c\x00o\x00m\x00'.decode('utf-16')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Python27\lib\encodings\utf_16.py", line 16, in decode
return codecs.utf_16_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf16' codec can't decode byte 0x00 in position 28: truncated data
and truncated:
>>> '\x00t\x00e\x00s\x00t\x00@\x00g\x00m\x00a\x00i\x00l\x00.\x00c\x00o\x00m\x00'[1:].decode('utf-16')
u'[email protected]'
>>> '\x00t\x00e\x00s\x00t\x00@\x00g\x00m\x00a\x00i\x00l\x00.\x00c\x00o\x00m\x00'[1:].decode('utf-16-le')
u'[email protected]'
>>> '\x00t\x00e\x00s\x00t\x00@\x00g\x00m\x00a\x00i\x00l\x00.\x00c\x00o\x00m\x00'.decode('utf-16-be', 'ignore')
u'[email protected]'
'\x00 ' or ' \x00' depending on byte order, which a straight split will mangle. Or any other ascii whitespace, of course. You can't safely split an encoded bytestring, especially not UTF-16. strip has similar potential to mangle things.Converting your email to an ASCII string can be done like this :
str(email.decode('utf-16le'))
