How to print ♠ at terminal where I read string u"\u2660" from data.txt
data = "./data.txt"
with open(data, 'r') as source:
for info in source: print(info)
u"\u2660" is what I get in the terminal
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Om Sao
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Possible duplicate of [Process escape sequences in a string in Python](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4020539/process-escape-sequences-in-a-string-in-python) ? – Alex K. Aug 14 '17 at 10:27
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The string u"\u2660" is just a plain text in a txt file. It needs to be interpreted by python interpreter to become a string which represents the unicode character. And you can use eval to do that.
>>> a=r'u"\u2660"'
>>> print(a)
u"\u2660"
>>> b = eval(a)
>>> print(b)
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Not just posting an answer, you could add little explanation which understand the solution better to OP and future readers as well. – Balagurunathan Marimuthu Aug 14 '17 at 13:09
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