Convert django Charfield “\t” to tab

Question

I have a django model with a Charfield that contains the unicode escaped string " \\\\t ". What is the easiest way to convert this to a real tab (as in str("\\t") )?

Answer 1

Found the answer:

"\\t".decode("string_escape")

as described here in the comments

In Python3 syntax：

In [5]: b'\\t'.decode("unicode_escape")
Out[5]: '\t'