Displaying unicode characters using python

Question

I have a string that prints out like this

print a
\\u4f53\\u91cd\\u8a08

I am using eclipse and the console can print unicode characters, I have

Answer 1

Decode using the unicode-escape codec.

>>> print '\\u4f53\\u91cd\\u8a08'.decode('unicode-escape')
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Or if what you have is actually a JSON fragment, decode as JSON.

>>> print json.loads('"\\u4f53\\u91cd\\u8a08"')
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