title: how to correctly read txt with backslash
body: <p>i have this string in a txt file : <code>"\x16\x07\x11\x10\x1c\x13\x0e\x07\x004"</code>  </p>
  
  <p>i try to read it in python and split it.
  instead of getting  this result :  </p>
  
  <pre><code>['\x16', '\x07', '\x11', '\x10', '\x1c', '\x13', '\x0e', '\x07', '\x00', '4']
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i get this :  </p>
  
  <pre><code>['\\', 'x', '1', '6', '\\', 'x', '0', '7', '\\', 'x', '1', '1', '\\', 'x', '1', '0', '\\', 'x', '1', 'c', '\\', 'x', '1', '3', '\\', 'x', '0', 'e', '\\', 'x', '0', '7', '\\', 'x', '0', '0', '4']
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>how can i read this file correctly<br>
  code:  </p>
  
  <pre><code>TextFile = open(FileName,"r")
  ReadFile=TextFile.read()
  print(list(ReadFile))
  </code></pre>