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I have this string:

V posledn\u00edch m\u011bs\u00edc\u00edch se bezpe\u010dnostn\u00ed situace v Libyi zna\u010dn\u011b zhor\u0161ila, o \u010dem\u017e sv\u011bd\u010d\u00ed i ned\u00e1vn\u00e9 n\u00e1hl\u00e9 opu\u0161t\u011bn\u00ed zem\u011b nejen \u010desk\u00fdmi diplomaty. Libyi hroz\u00ed nekontrolovan\u00fd rozpad a nekone\u010d

Which should read "V posledních měsících se ..." so \u00ed is í and \u011b is ě.

Any idea how to decode this in Python? It is a javascript code I am parsing in python. I could write my own ad-hoc solution as there are not that many characters that are escaped (there are only twelve or so accented characters in Czech), but that seems ugly.

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Decode it using the 'unicode-escape' codec. If x is your string, x.decode('unicode-escape').

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'\u2019'.decode('unicode-escape') gives me u'\u2019' (Python 2.7.17)
My bad, r'\u2019'.decode('unicode-escape') gives u'\u2019', which printed gives ’ as expected
.encode().decode('unicode-escape') If you are dealing with a string in python that is already encoded like this.
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If it is Javascript code, then perhaps it's actually JSON, and you can use json.loads to decode it.

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That does not seem to work straigth away (it says it is no json) and the answer by BrenBarn actually works great, thanks though!
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I had a similar issue, was solved by:

unicodedata.normalize('NFD', my_string.decode('unicode-escape')).encode('ascii','ignore')

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