Merge pull request #22 from msabramo/issue_21

Fix issue 21

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/pies/overrides.py b/pies/overrides.py
index 834904b..1d64f66 100644
--- a/pies/overrides.py
+++ b/pies/overrides.py
@@ -110,8 +110,11 @@ else:
     for removed in ('apply', 'cmp', 'coerce', 'execfile', 'raw_input', 'unpacks'):
         globals()[removed] = _create_not_allowed(removed)
 
-    def u(string):
-        return codecs.unicode_escape_decode(string[0])
+    def u(s):
+        if isinstance(s, unicode):
+            return s
+        else:
+            return unicode(s.replace(r'\\', r'\\\\'), "unicode_escape")
 
     def execute(_code_, _globs_=None, _locs_=None):
         """Execute code in a namespace."""
diff --git a/tests.py b/tests.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5a52b64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function, unicode_literals
+
+from pies.overrides import *
+
+
+def test_u():
+    assert u('Bj\xf6rk Gu\xf0mundsd\xf3ttir') == 'Bj\xf6rk Gu\xf0mundsd\xf3ttir'