title: Decoding a string in python ... with _\x08__\x08_d\x08de\x08el\x08li\x08it\x08te\x08em in it
body: <p>I have some strings with all this kind of characters in it which also has normal letters ,
  and i want to transform all the "wired" characters in they're normal representation .
  So my question is : 
  Is there a Pythonic way of doing this ? </p>
  
  <p>I have a string for example this one :</p>
  
  <pre><code>Mymethods defined here:
   |  
   |  __add__(...)
   |      x.__add__(y) &lt;==&gt; x+y
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This somehow has this output :</p>
  
  <pre><code>Mymethods defined here:\n 
   |  \n 
   |  _\x08__\x08_a\x08ad\x08dd\x08d_\x08__\x08_(...)\n 
   |      x.__add__(y) &lt;==&gt; x+y
  </code></pre>