Python Print Unicode List

With the following code lst = [u'\u5de5', u'\u5de5'] msg = repr(lst).decode('unicode-escape') print msg I got [u'工', u'工'] How can I remove the leading u so that the content

Solution 1:

>>> import sys
>>> lst = [u'\u5de5', u'\u5de5']
>>> msg = repr([x.encode(sys.stdout.encoding) for x in lst]).decode('string-escape')
>>> print msg
['工', '工']