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   1 For example, this works:
   2
   3 python -c 'from xml.etree import ElementTree; a=u"<body>\u1234</body>"; print type(a), a; b=ElementTree.XML(a.encode("unicode_escape")); print type(b.text), unicode(b.text).decode("unicode_escape");'
   4
   5 Ugly though :p.  Ah well.