I have a string from a database request as follows:

result = "b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x07\x80\x00\x03'"
type(result) -> <class 'str'>

How do I convert it to bytes? It should be like this:

a = b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x07\x80\x00\x03'

type(a) -> <class 'bytes'>

>Solution :

From what I understood (I have a terrible understanding of english):
You can use the eval() or the exec() function to convert a string to any Python object you want.
Here’s an example:

a = "b'\x00\x00\x00\x00\x07\x80\x00\x03'"
x = eval(a.encode("unicode-escape").decode())
print(type(x)) -> bytes

Same thing for the exec function.