How to decode a unicode-like string in Python 3?

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I have unicode-like strings but with slash escaped. For example, '\\u000D'. I need to decode them as normal strings. The above example should be convert to '\r' which '\u000D' corresponds to.

dan04 · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-05 04:38:36Z

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Use the unicode-escape codec.

>>> import codecs
>>> codecs.decode('\\u000D', 'unicode-escape')
'\r'

answered Jan 5, 2017 at 4:38

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furas Over a year ago

the same result without codecs - '\\u000D'.encode('ascii').decode('unicode-escape') or with other encoding '\\u000D'.encode('utf-8').decode('unicode-escape')

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