On 06Apr2012 16:57, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
| 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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