Conversion of strings like \\uXXXX in python

Question

I have a string like \uXXXX (representation) and I need to convert it into unicode. I receive it from 3rd party service so python interpreter doesn't convert it and I need conversion in my code. How do I do it in Python?

>>> s
u'\\u0e4f\\u032f\\u0361\\u0e4f'

Answer 1

>>> u'\\u0e4f\\u032f\\u0361\\u0e4f'.decode('unicode-escape')
u'\u0e4f\u032f\u0361\u0e4f'
>>> print u'\\u0e4f\\u032f\\u0361\\u0e4f'.decode('unicode-escape')
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Answer 2

There's an interesting list of encodings supported by .encode() and .decode() methods. Those magic ones in the second table include the unicode_escape.