On 4/6/2012 1:52 PM, Nicholas Cole wrote:
In Python 2 given the following raw string:
s = r"Hello\x3a this is a test"
the escaping could be removed by use of the following:
s.decode('string_escape')
In Python 3, however, the only way I can see to achieve the same
result is to convert into a byte stream and then back:
bytes(s, 'utf-8').decode('unicode_escape')
This seems very ugly (and slightly 'wrong'). Is there no way to do
this without using bytes? Have I missed something?
>>> eval("'"+s+"'")
'Hello: this is a test'
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