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Author Naitbit
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Date 2017-10-20.09:58:19
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In Python 3.5 and earlier (tested 3.5.3 and 2.7.13)
b'\\\xfa'.decode('unicode-escape', errors='ignore')
did return '\\ú'

but in Python 3.6 it raises 
OverflowError: decoding with 'unicode-escape' codec failed (OverflowError: character argument not in range(0x110000))


Python 3.6.1 (default, Sep  7 2017, 16:36:03) 
[GCC 6.3.0 20170406] on linux
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