title: convert a String '\u05d9\u05d7\u05e4\u05d9\u05dd' to its unicode character in python
body: <p>I get a Json object from a URL which has values in the form like above:
  title:'\u05d9\u05d7\u05e4\u05d9\u05dd'</p>
  
  <p>I need to print these values as readable text however I'm not able to convert them as they are taken as literal strings and not unicode objects.</p>
  
  <p>doing <code>unicode(myStr)</code> does not work<br>
  doing <code>a = u'%s' % myStr</code> does not work </p>
  
  <p>all are escaped as string so return the same sequence of characters.
  Does any one know how I can do this conversion in python?</p>
  
  <p>May be the right approach is to change the encoding of the response, how do I do that?</p>