Is there a built in python function to escape a string of unicode characters into unicode escape sequences "\uXXXX\uXXXX\uXXXX"?

Question

Like repr(), except converting into \uXXXX instead of \x00

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Answer 1

repr() works fine on Unicode strings. For printable ASCII characters, it will print the character, and for unprintable characters, it will print the Unicode escape sequence.