How to Split Chinese Character with backslash representation?

[Wijaya Edward]

Hi all,

I was trying to split a string that 
represent chinese characters below:
 
 
>>> str = '\xc5\xeb\xc7\xd5\xbc'
>>> print str2,
???
>>> fields2 = split(r'\\',str)
>>> print fields2,
['\xc5\xeb\xc7\xd5\xbc']

But why the split function here doesn't seem
to do the job for obtaining the desired result:
 
['\xc5','\xeb','\xc7','\xd5','\xbc']
 
 
 
Regards,
-- Edward WIJAYA
SINGAPORE



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