decode(unicode_escape) in python 3 a string

Question

I\'ve checked this solution but it doesn\'t work in python3.

I\'ve an escaped string of this kind: str = \"Hello\\\\nWorld\" and I want to obtain the sa

Answer 1

decode applies to bytes, which you can create by encoding from your string.

I would encode (using default) then decode with unicode-escape

>>> s = "Hello\\nWorld"
>>> s.encode()
b'Hello\\nWorld'
>>> s.encode().decode("unicode-escape")
'Hello\nWorld'
>>> print(s.encode().decode("unicode-escape"))
Hello
World
>>>