Python. The coding of a string

>>> w开发者_开发知识库ord = '\u041a\u041e\u041b'
>>> print u'\u041a\u041e\u041b' 
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>>> print word 
\u041a\u041e\u041b

How to transform string as a variable to a readable kind (how print word)?

>>> print '\u041a\u041e\u041b'.decode('unicode-escape')
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