text with unicode escape sequences to unicode in python

Asked 2010-10-23T14:22:05.257

suppose I have the string

test
'\\u0259'

Note the escaped backslash.

How do I convert it to the respective unicode string?

python unicode

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>>> print('test \\u0259'.decode('unicode-escape'))
test ə

answered 2010-10-23T14:24:11.620