SV: Unicode literals to latin-1

[David.Reksten at sweco.no]

On 30. januar 2008 10:48, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
>On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:57:55 +0100, David.Reksten wrote:
>
>> How can I convert a string read from a database containing unicode
>> literals, such as "Fr\u00f8ya" to the latin-1 equivalent, "Frøya"?
>>
>> I have tried variations around
>>   "Fr\u00f8ya".decode('latin-1')
>> but to no avail.
>
>In [388]: 'Fr\u00f8ya'.decode('unicode-escape')
>Out[388]: u'Fr\xf8ya'
>
>In [389]: print 'Fr\u00f8ya'.decode('unicode-escape')
>Frøya

'unicode-escape' did the trick! Thank you!

.david