1>>> u1234 = str(b'\xe1\x88\xb4', 'utf-8')
2>>> print (u1234) # if terminal supports UTF-8 AND python auto-infers
3ሴ
4>>> u1234.encode('unicode-escape')
5b'\\u1234'
6>>> print ('%04x' % ord(u1234))
71234
8>>> type(u1234)
9<class 'str'>
10>>> len(u1234)
111
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