Printing UTF-8-encoded byte string

Question

I have a data of a form: v = \"\\xc5\\x84\"

This is a byte representation of an utf-8 encoded character \"ń\".

How can I print >>ń<< using

Answer 1

Uhm, you don't need to do anything special... It's just print v?

>>> v = "\xc5\x84"
>>> print v
ń