How to convert escaped characters? [duplicate]

by 
>>> escaped_str="One \\\"example\\\''
>>> print escaped_str.encode('string_escape')
One \\\'example\\\'
>>> print escaped_str.decode('string_escape')
One 'example'

Several similar codecs are available, such as rot13 and hex.

The above is Python 2.x, but – since you said (below, in a comment) that you’re using Python 3.x – while it’s circumlocutious to decode a Unicode string object, it’s still possible. The codec has been renamed to “unicode_escape” too:

Python 3.3a0 (default:b6aafb20e5f5, Jul 29 2011, 05:34:11) 
[GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
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>>> escaped_str = "One \\\'example\\\'"
>>> import codecs
>>> print(codecs.getdecoder("unicode_escape")(escaped_str)[0])
One 'example'

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