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

[slomo]

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

for example, a file 'unicodes.txt' has contents:

\u0050\u0079\u0074\u0068\u006f\u006e

Now,

>>file = open('unicodes.txt')
line = file.readline()
line

'\\u0050\\u0079\\u0074\\u0068\\u006f\\u006e\n'

>>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?

[Duncan Booth]

slomo <sl*****@gmail.comwrote:

>>>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')

[slomo]

WOW! Great! Thanks, Duncan.
On 12¿ù2ÀÏ, ¿ÀÀü12½Ã33ºÐ, Duncan Booth <[e-mail]:

slomo <[e-mail]:

>>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')

[Bjoern Schliessmann]

John Machin wrote:

Amazing what you can find in obscure corners of the obscure docs!
BTW, how many folks know what "bijective" means ?

Everyone that can read and is smart enough to enter "bijective" into
Wikipedia search.

Regards,
Björn

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