How to represent Unicode encoded strings in Python?

Question

I am translating a program from Java to Python.

In the source code of the Java program, the strings use the "\u000x" encoding for a few characters. As I understand, this is the unicode representation of the character and x is a hexadecimal code for that character.

In Java program the string is declared as:

data = "~\\GJ_F^A\u001eXJ]NK\u0018!"

How do I represent this in Python?

The above string has two encoded characters:

\u001e
\u0018

Thanks.

Does this answer your question? How to encode Python 3 string using \u escape code? — Martheen
– Martheen, Commented Apr 11, 2020 at 0:02

Joni · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-11 00:23:12Z

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Python also has Unicode escape codes. This is valid python:

data = "~\\GJ_F^A\u001eXJ]NK\u0018!"

answered Apr 11, 2020 at 0:23

Joni

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Neon Flash Over a year ago

Hello. Thanks for confirming. The issue in my case was that I was using Python 2.x version which did not have support for such encoding. I used Python 3.x and it worked properly.

Joni Over a year ago

good choice, not a good idea to do new projects in python2 - but you can use unicode escapes in unicode strings in python2 too docs.python.org/2/howto/…

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