'string_escape' in python 3

[Terry Reedy]

On 4/6/2012 1:52 PM, Nicholas Cole wrote:
> In Python 2 given the following raw string:
>
>>>> s = r"Hello\x3a this is a test"
>
> the escaping could be removed by use of the following:
>
>>>> s.decode('string_escape')

> In Python 3, however, the only way I can see to achieve the same
> result is to convert into a byte stream and then back:
>
>>>> bytes(s, 'utf-8').decode('unicode_escape')
>
>
> This seems very ugly (and slightly 'wrong').  Is there no way to do
> this without using bytes?  Have I missed something?

 >>> eval("'"+s+"'")
'Hello: this is a test'

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Terry Jan Reedy