title: python 2.7 -remove backslash from unicode
body: <p>I have this unicode</p>
  
  <pre><code>xx = u"Merci d'avoir acheté Electricité mobile, votre SPS sera activé prochainement"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>when i print it it looks ok
  when i want to compare this xx the unicode appears like this</p>
  
  <pre><code>u'Merci d\'avoir acheté Electricité mobile, votre SPS sera activé prochainement'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i want to remove this backslash
  i tried like this but get exception</p>
  
  <pre><code>ddd=xx.decode('string_escape')
  
  EncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 19: ordinal not in range(128)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>any help will be appriciated </p>