CODE EXAMPLE FOR PYTHON

bytestring python

>>> u1234 = str(b'xe1x88xb4', 'utf-8')
>>> print (u1234) # if terminal supports UTF-8 AND python auto-infers
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>>> u1234.encode('unicode-escape')
b'u1234'
>>> print ('%04x' % ord(u1234))
1234
>>> type(u1234)
<class 'str'>
>>> len(u1234)
1