为什么python爬虫获取到的是一串utf8编码而不是正常的字符串？

Question

try:
    req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers=hds[page_num%len(hds)])
    source_code = urllib.request.urlopen(req).read()
    plain_text=str(source_code)   
except:
    print ("Error.")
    continue
    
soup = BeautifulSoup(plain_text, from_encoding='utf-8')
list_soup = soup.find('div', {'class': 'mod book-list'})

try_times+=1;
if list_soup==None and try_times<200:
    continue
elif list_soup==None or len(list_soup)<=1:
    break # Break when no informatoin got after 200 times requesting

for book_info in list_soup.findAll('dd'):
    title = book_info.find('a', {'class':'title'}).string.strip()
    desc = book_info.find('div', {'class':'desc'}).string.strip()
    desc_list = desc.split('/')
    book_url = book_info.find('a', {'class':'title'}).get('href')
    
    #输出爬取到的书籍的标题
    print(title)

上面的代码是爬取豆瓣网的爬虫，为什么我爬取的书籍的标题(title)，是一串utf-8编码，而不是正常的字符串？如下图：

由于获取到的标题(title)其实仍然是str类型，所以无法使用decode函数解码，请问还有什么办法可以解决吗？

Answer 1

试一试

text.encode('latin-1').decode('unicode_escape')