Ganesan Rajagopal wrote: >> unicodeStrFromNetwork = '\u5927' >> unicodeStrNative = _unicodeRe(unisub, unicodeStrFromNetwork) > > How about unicodeStrNative = eval("u'%s'" % (unicodeStrFromNetwork,)) unicodeStrFromNetwork = "' + str(__import__('os').system('really bad idea')) + '" </F>