Python string to unicode [duplicate]
问题 This question already has answers here : Closed 7 years ago . Possible Duplicate: How do I treat an ASCII string as unicode and unescape the escaped characters in it in python? How do convert unicode escape sequences to unicode characters in a python string I have a string that contains unicode characters e.g. \u2026 etc. Somehow it is not received to me as unicode , but is received as a str . How do I convert it back to unicode? >>> a="Hello\u2026" >>> b=u"Hello\u2026" >>> print a Hello