unicode for beginners

[Vlastimil Brom]

2009/3/26 WallyDD <shanebest at gmail.com>:
> I have something of a csv file which has somehow been converted into
> something that looks like this;
> " FOZ DE IGUAZ\u00da" and " R\u00cdO DE JANEIRO"
> Is there a simple way to convert this into something a little bit
> readable?
> Is there a simple command in python to convert this?
>
> Thank you.
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>

Hi,
try decoding your output (assuming all non-ascii characters are
escaped this way completely)

>>> " FOZ DE IGUAZ\u00da and R\u00cdO DE JANEIRO".decode("unicode-escape")
u' FOZ DE IGUAZ\xda and R\xcdO DE JANEIRO'
>>> print " FOZ DE IGUAZ\u00da and R\u00cdO DE JANEIRO".decode("unicode-escape")
 FOZ DE IGUAZÚ and RÍO DE JANEIRO
>>>

hth
  vbr