suppose I have the string
test
'\\u0259'
Note the escaped backslash.
How do I convert it to the respective unicode string?
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>>> print('test \\u0259'.decode('unicode-escape'))
test ə
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16+1. Note that if you run python 3.x, you'll need `print(bytes('test \\u0259', 'ascii').decode('unicode-escape'))` instead. – Frédéric Hamidi Oct 23 '10 at 14:28
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3How to get symbol **ə** without `print`? – Vladimir Chub Oct 14 '13 at 06:54
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2`bytes('test \\u0259', 'ascii')` == `b'test \\u0259'` – Bachsau Mar 24 '18 at 11:53
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what if we need to store the text in a json file – Syed Adnan Haider Jan 08 '21 at 12:33
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@FrédéricHamidi your answer from 2010 saved my brain from melting down here in 2021. Legend. SO says avoid "+1" stuff, but this deserved a special mention. – tgmerritt Mar 09 '21 at 14:41
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Alternatively to using `bytes`, you can just chain encode and decode if you start out with a unicode-string (Python 3). `'test \\u0259'.encode('ascii').decode('unicode-escape')` – timgeb Jun 28 '22 at 09:32