Russian character decoding in python
Question: This question only for python:

I have a city name in a string in Russian language and which is in Unicode
form like,

> `\u041C\u043E\u0441\u043A\u0432\u0430`

means

> `Москва`

How to get original text instead of unicode characters?

**Note:** Do not use any import module


Answer: 
    >>> a=u"\u041C\u043E\u0441\u043A\u0432\u0430"
    >>> print a
    Москва
    

Your string is a unicode string because each character/code point with \u is
only usable from a unicode string, you should prefix the string with u.
Otherwise is a regular string and each \u counts as a regular ascii character:

    
    
    >>> len(a)
    6
    >>> b="\u041C\u043E\u0441\u043A\u0432\u0430"
    >>> len(b)
    36
    

