Matthew Barnett <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> added the comment:

You wrote "the u had already been removed by hand". By removing the u in the 
_Python 2_ code, you changed that string from a Unicode string to a bytestring.

In a bytestring, \uXXXX is not an escape; b"\u0000" == b"\\u0000".

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