Interpreting string containing \u000a

[Francis Girard]

Thank you very much ! I didn't know about this 'unicode-escape'. That's
great!

Francis

2008/6/18 Duncan Booth <duncan.booth at invalid.invalid>:

> "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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