import sys, os, codecs
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding("utf_8")

errCase = 'a\\nb\u0085 b2\\nc'
print "Case SRC: %s\n\n"%errCase
file = 'tmp.txt'
coding = 'unicode-escape'

fs_out=open(file, 'wb')
fs_out.write(errCase.decode(coding))
fs_out.close()
fs_in=codecs.open(file, 'r', 'utf_8')
a_str_lines=fs_in.readlines()
fs_out.close()
lineNum=0
print "WRONG:"
for line in a_str_lines:
   lineNum+=1
   print 'Line: %s = "%s"'%(lineNum,line.encode(coding))


fs_in=codecs.open(file, 'r', 'utf_8')
a_str_whole = fs_in.read()
fs_in.close()
a_str_lines = a_str_whole.split("\n")
for idx in range(0,len(a_str_lines)-1):
   a_str_lines[idx]+="\n"

lineNum=0
print "\n\n\nCORRECT:"
for line in a_str_lines:
   lineNum+=1
   print 'Line: %s = "%s"'%(lineNum,line.encode(coding))

print "???"