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.
-tkc
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