Python: filenames with german umlaut

Question

I have the following problem with copying files:

I am getting a list of file names and some of them can contain an umlaut. Example: part1üpart2.txt. In my list this shows up as 'part1\xfcpart2.txt'. So I know that the character ü is represented as \xfc. How to I copy the file such that it has the name part1üpart2.txt and not part1\xfcpart2.txt?

My script has # -- coding: utf-8 -- and I tried to remove the escape \ with unicode and a lot of other stuff, but no success.

This is on WinXP and Python 2.7

Thanks

Answer 1

shutil.copy(u"part1üpart2.txt",dst)

is working for me. Just use unicode strings.