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Asked: 2026-05-27T22:35:58+00:00

I have a django model with a Charfield that contains the unicode escaped string

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I have a django model with a Charfield that contains the unicode escaped string “\\t“.
What is the easiest way to convert this to a real tab (as in str("\t"))?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Found the answer:

    "\\t".decode("string_escape")

    as described here in the comments

    In Python3 syntax：

    In [5]: b'\\t'.decode("unicode_escape")
Out[5]: '\t'
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