How to 'de-slashify' a string?

Sat Aug 22 09:52:44 EDT 2009

>>>>> Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom at gmail.com> (VB) wrote:

>>>>> decoded = '\\303\\266'.decode("string_escape")
>>>>> decoded
>VB> '\xc3\xb6'
>>>>> print decoded
>VB> Ă¶
>>>>> print '\303\266'
>VB> Ă¶
>>>>> 

>VB> It might be an IDLE issue, but it still isn't one unicode glyph.

>VB> I guess, you have to ensure, that the input data is valid and the
>VB> right encoding is used.

>>> decoded = '\\303\\266'.decode("string_escape").decode('utf-8')
>>> decoded
u'\xf6'
>>> print decoded
ö

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