Convert a Unicode string to a string in Python (containing extra symbols)

You can use the .encode() method to convert a Unicode string to a bytes object in Python. Here is an example:

Convert a Unicode string to a bytes object in Python

# Original Unicode string
unicode_string = "Hello, 世界!"

# Convert to bytes object
encoded_bytes = unicode_string.encode("utf-8")

print(encoded_bytes)

This will output a bytes object: b'Hello, \xe4\xb8\x96\xe7\x95\x8c!'

You can also use the .decode() method to convert the bytes back to a str object:

Using decode() method in Python

original_string = encoded_bytes.decode("utf-8")
print(original_string)

This will output Hello, 世界!

Note that the encoding format passed to the .encode() and .decode() methods should be the same.