Interpreting string containing \u000a

[Francis Girard]

Hi,

I have an ISO-8859-1 file containing things like
"Hello\u000d\u000aWorld", i.e. the character '\', followed by the
character 'u' and then '0', etc.

What is the easiest way to automatically translate these codes into
unicode characters ?

Thank you

Francis Girard

 

[Peter Otten]

I have an ISO-8859-1 file containing things like
"Hello\u000d\u000aWorld", i.e. the character '\', followed by the
character 'u' and then '0', etc.

What is the easiest way to automatically translate these codes into
unicode characters ?

If the file really contains the escape sequences use "unicode-escape" as the
encoding:
u'Hello\r\nWorld'

If it contains the raw bytes use "iso-8859-1":
u'Hello\r\nWorld'

Open the file with

codecs.open(filename, encoding=encoding_as_determined_above)

instead of the builtin open().

Peter