Mea culpa. I had not my head on my shoulders. Inputing if working fine, it returns "text" correctly.
However, and this is something different, I'm a little bit surprised, input() does not handle escaped characters (\u, \U). Workaround: encode() and decode() as "raw-unicode-escape". jmf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
