How to unquote a urlencoded unicode string in python?

Question

I have a unicode string like \"Tanım\" which is encoded as \"Tan%u0131m\" somehow. How can i convert this encoded string back to original unicode. Apparently urllib.unquote

Answer 1

This will do it if you absolutely have to have this (I really do agree with the cries of "non-standard"):

from urllib import unquote

def unquote_u(source):
    result = unquote(source)
    if '%u' in result:
        result = result.replace('%u','\\u').decode('unicode_escape')
    return result

print unquote_u('Tan%u0131m')

> Tanım