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I am dealing with unicode strings returned by the python-lastfm library. I assume somewhere on the way, the library gets the encoding wrong and returns a unicode string that may contain invalid characters. For example, the original string i am expecting in the variable a is "Glück" >>> a u'Gl\xfcck' >>> print a Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 2: ordinal not in range(128) \xfc is the escaped value 252, which corresponds to the latin1 encoding of "ü". Somehow this gets embedded in the unicode string in a way python can't handle on its own. How do i convert this back a normal or unicode string that contains the original "Glück"? I tried playing around with the decode/encode methods, but either got a UnicodeEncodeError, or a string containing the sequence \xfc.
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