How to read strings cantaining escape character from a file and use it as escape sequences?

[Duncan Booth]

slomo <slimaak at gmail.com> wrote:

>>>> print line
> \u0050\u0079\u0074\u0068\u006f\u006e
> 
> But I want to get a string:
> 
> "\u0050\u0079\u0074\u0068\u006f\u006e"
> 
> How do you make it?
> 

line.decode('unicode-escape')