On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:12:33 +0100, Peter Otten wrote: > By the way: > >>>> print quopri.decodestring("=E4=F6=FC").decode("iso-8859-1") > äöü >>>> print r"\xe4\xf6\xfc".decode("string-escape").decode("iso-8859-1") > äöü Ah - better than a regex. Thanks!