How to do special encode in string ?

[Jean Brouwers]

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/Jean Brouwers


In article <mailman.11.1087908003.27577.python-list at python.org>,
<"fowlertrainer at anonym.hu"> wrote:

> Hi !
> 
> I'm hungarian, we use special characters like:
> á - a'
> õ -o"
> 
> etc.
> 
> I want to encode this characters to in config file I see these
> characters as \nnn format.
> And I want to decode it automatically with python.
> 
> How to I do it without write complex converter tool ?
> 
> Thanx for it:
> FT
> 
> Example:
> Encode("az állam én vagyok") -> "az \xe1llam \xe9n vagyok"
> 
> Decode("az \xe1llam \xe9n vagyok") -> "az állam én vagyok"
> 
>