Python string to unicode [duplicate]

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Unicode escapes only work in unicode strings, so this

 a="\u2026"

is actually a string of 6 characters: ‘\’, ‘u’, ‘2’, ‘0’, ‘2’, ‘6’.

To make unicode out of this, use decode('unicode-escape'):

a="\u2026"
print repr(a)
print repr(a.decode('unicode-escape'))

## '\\u2026'
## u'\u2026'

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