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how do you take a unicode string like u"レーザー" and convert it into \uXXXX escape code?

Nov 20th, 2002 19:13
Ian Bicking, C. Yu,

Try repr:

>>> repr(u"レーザー")
"u'\\xe3f\\xac\\xe3f\\xbc\\xe3,\\xb6\\xe3f\\xbc'"