Handle string/unicode escape during string encode

[acerv]

Hello everyone,

python2 differs from python3 when encoding a string with escape chars. For example:

# python2
my_str.encode('string-escape')
# python3
my_str.encode('unicode-escape')

It would be useful to handle the escape encoding in six, such as:

if PY2:
    encode_escape = 'string-escape'
else:
    encode_escape = 'unicode-escape'

Or a method that handle string encoding escape automatically.

Thanks in advice,
Andrea

[benjaminp]

In both versions, I believe you can simply use codecs.unicode_escape_(encode|decode).