'string_escape' in python 3

[Nicholas Cole]

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> import codecs
>>>> codecs.getdecoder('unicode_escape')(s)[0]
> 'Hello: this is a test'
>
> Cheers,
> Ian

Thanks, Ian.  I had assumed that if a unicode string didn't have a
.decode method, then I couldn't use a decoder on it, so it hadn't
occurred to me to try that....

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