Timeline for answer to Process escape sequences in a string in Python by user19087

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Dec 4, 2023 at 12:17	comment	added	holdenweb		Interestingly, six years later `escape-decode`remains undocumented!
Dec 17, 2020 at 1:29	comment	added	Glen Whitney		Moreover, in the link that Hack5 provides, the python maintainers make it clear that escape_decode may be removed without warning in any future version, and that the "unicode_escape" codec is the recommended way to go about this.
Oct 26, 2019 at 19:03	comment	added	Hack5		Just an FYI, this function is technically not public. see bugs.python.org/issue30588
Aug 16, 2017 at 17:10	comment	added	OpenAI stole this from rspeer		This is the answer for situations where the escape sequences you have are `\x` escapes of UTF-8 bytes. But because it decodes bytes to bytes, it doesn't -- and can't -- decode any escapes of non-ASCII Unicode characters, such as `\u` escapes.
May 23, 2017 at 12:02	history	edited	URL Rewriter Bot		replaced http://stackoverflow.com/ with https://stackoverflow.com/
Feb 21, 2017 at 18:42	comment	added	jwd		This is the real answer (: Too bad it relies upon a poorly-documented function.
May 5, 2016 at 21:11	history	edited	user19087	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 91 characters in body
May 5, 2016 at 20:27	history	answered	user19087	CC BY-SA 3.0