How to encode Python 3 string using \u escape code?

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You can use unicode_escape:

>>> thai_string.encode('unicode_escape')
b'\\u0e2a\\u0e35\\u0e40'

Note that encode() will always return a byte string (bytes) and the unicode_escape encoding is intended to:

Produce a string that is suitable as Unicode literal in Python source code

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