How to pass the correct string to the input to the Python script or correctly process what is passed in the script?

Question

Python

Comrades help out, the situation is as follows:
I am writing a Python 3 script to integrate Zabbix 2.2 and our local ServiceDesk system.
I configure Zabbix to work with an external script by analogy with this instruction: www.pagerduty.com/docs/guides/zabbix-integration-guide
The problem is that the input to the script instead of Russian characters comes with something similar to a unicode string, here:

['/etc/zabbix/alert.d//script.py', 
'[email protected]', 
'trigger', 
'name:No ping availability\nid:100100000013878\nstatus:PROBLEM\nhostname:sms\nip:192.168.47.122\nvalue:1\nevent_id:100100001782560\nseverity:High\n
inventoryname:Server for send SMS\n
inrussia:\udcd0\udcbf\udcd1\udc80\udcd0\udcbe\udcd1\udc81\udcd1\udc82\udcd0\udcbe\udcd0\udcb5 \udcd1\udc81\udcd0\udcbb\udcd0\udcbe\udcd0\udcb2\udcd0\udcbe \udcd0\udcbd\udcd0\udcb0 \udcd1\udc80\udcd1\udc83\udcd1\udc81\udcd1\udc81\udcd0\udcba\udcd0\udcbe\udcd0\udcbc.']

instead of obscure characters, I expect to see the following:
inrussia:простое слово на русском.
here are queries to the zabbix database in MySQL that may be useful:
mysql> show variables like 'collation%';

+----------------------+-----------------+
| Variable_name        | Value           |
+----------------------+-----------------+
| collation_connection | utf8_general_ci |
| collation_database   | utf8_general_ci |
| collation_server     | utf8_unicode_ci |
+----------------------+-----------------+

show variables like 'char%';

+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| Variable_name            | Value                      |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| character_set_client     | utf8                       |
| character_set_connection | utf8                       |
| character_set_database   | utf8                       |
| character_set_filesystem | binary                     |
| character_set_results    | utf8                       |
| character_set_server     | utf8                       |
| character_set_system     | utf8                       |
| character_sets_dir       | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)

OS - debian wheezy 3.2.51-1 x86_64
MySQL - Server version: 5.5.31-0+wheezy1 (Debian) Python
3.2.3
Zabbix 2.2.0
script?

Answer 1

Try it like this:

unicode('\u041b\u0435\u0432\u044b\u0435', 'unicode-escape')