Edward Loper wrote:
> I would like to convert an 8-bit string (i.e., a str) into unicode,
> treating chars \x00-\x7f as ascii, and converting any chars \x80-xff
> into a backslashed escape sequences. I.e., I want something like this:
>
> >>> decode_with_backslashreplace('abc \xff\xe8 def')
> u'abc \\xff\\xe8 def'
>>> s='abc \xff\xe8 def'
>>> s.encode('string_escape')
'abc \\xff\\xe8 def'
>>> unicode(s.encode('string_escape'))
u'abc \\xff\\xe8 def'
Kent
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