Tim Chase wrote:
> I like the clarity of using the "\N{...}" notation when creating
> string literals involving Unicode chars.
>
> Is there a built-in way to get such strings back from Python?
>
> >>> s = 'ma\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE}ana'
> >>> s
> 'mañana'
> >>> magic(s)
> 'ma\\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE}ana'
>
> I can manually rip the string apart and put it back together with
> something like
>
> >>> import unicodedata as ud
> >>> ''.join(c if ord(c) < 128 else '\\N{%s}' % ud.name(c) for c in s)
> 'ma\\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE}ana'
>
> but was wondering if there was some sort of .encode() trick or other
> corner of the library I hadn't found.
>>> 'mañana'.encode("ascii", "namereplace").decode()
'ma\\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE}ana'
(requires Python 3.5)
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