Get unicode string from binary data in python

Question

I have some UCF-2 data in a normal string received from the server. How can I get the unicode () string from this?

EG: >>> something('\0a\0b\0c')

=u'abc'

+3

0x1_c0de_bad 20 Mar 12 at 21:41

1 answer

dan04 · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-20T21:45:05+0000

>>> '\0a\0b\0c'.decode('UTF-16BE')
u'abc'