Cool, it works! I have also done some due diligence that the utf-8
encoding would not introduce any Python escape accidentially. I have
written a recipe in the Python cookbook:
Efficient character escapes decoding
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/466293
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> Does this
aurora wrote:
> I have some unicode string with some characters encode using python
> notation like '\n' for LF. I need to convert that to the actual LF
> character. There is a 'unicode_escape' codec that seems to suit my purpose.
>
encoded = u'A\\nA'
decoded = encoded.decode('unicod
