Convert hex to string

[Java and Swing]

I have some output stored in a string that looks like..

>> x
'\x01\xee\x1eo\xc3+\x8b\x83\xfad\xf6E\xaa\x0ea/I\x96\x83\xf5G\xa3\rQ\xfcH\xee\r'


According to, http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html, this is
"Unsigned Hexidecimal (lowercase)".  How can I get this into normal
Ascii so that I can read it?

thanks.