text with unicode escape sequences to unicode in python

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Conversion of strings like \\uXXXX in python

Hi, suppose I have the string

test
'\\u0259'

Note the escaped backslash.

How do I convert it to the respective unicode string?

Answer 1

>>> print('test \\u0259'.decode('unicode-escape'))
test ə