Reversing \N{...} notation?

[Tim Chase]

On 2016-10-25 20:14, Peter Otten wrote:
> Tim Chase wrote:
> > I like the clarity of using the "\N{...}" notation when creating
> > string literals involving Unicode chars.
> > 
> > Is there a built-in way to get such strings back from Python?
> 
> >>> 'mañana'.encode("ascii", "namereplace").decode()
> 'ma\\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE}ana'

Wonderful!  Thanks for knowing about that corner of Python and
sharing it.

> (requires Python 3.5)

Sorry it wasn't back-ported, but glad it's there now.  Thanks!

-tkc