"Francis Girard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an ISO-8859-1 file containing things like > "Hello\u000d\u000aWorld", i.e. the character '\', followed by the > character 'u' and then '0', etc. > > What is the easiest way to automatically translate these codes into > unicode characters ? >
>>> s = r"Hello\u000d\u000aWorld" >>> print s Hello\u000d\u000aWorld >>> s.decode('iso-8859-1').decode('unicode-escape') u'Hello\r\nWorld' >>> -- Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list