Interpreting string containing \u000a

[Duncan Booth]

"Francis Girard" <francis.girard07 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have an ISO-8859-1 file containing things like
> "Hello\u000d\u000aWorld", i.e. the character '\', followed by the
> character 'u' and then '0', etc.
> 
> What is the easiest way to automatically translate these codes into
> unicode characters ?
> 

>>> s = r"Hello\u000d\u000aWorld"
>>> print s
Hello\u000d\u000aWorld
>>> s.decode('iso-8859-1').decode('unicode-escape')
u'Hello\r\nWorld'
>>> 

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