Literal strings in Python

Some of the many ways one can construct strings in Python:

s = "qwe\nasd\nzxc"  #gives 'qwe\nasd\nzxc'
s = 'qwe\nasd\nzxc'  #gives 'qwe\nasd\nzxc'
s = 'qwe\

\nasd\

\nzxc'  #gives 'qwe\nasd\nzxc'

s = '''qwe

asd

zxc'''  #gives 'qwe\nasd\nzxc'

s = '''qwe\\n

asd

zxc'''  #gives 'qwe\\n\nasd\nzxc'

s = r'qwe\n\

asd\

zxc'  #gives 'qwe\\n\\\nasd\\\nzxc'; => \n in the string is always accompanied by a '\'.

s = u'qwe\u0020asd'  #gives a Unicode string 'qwe asd' (the Unicode code for space is 20)

s = ur'qwe\u0020asd'  #gives a Unicode string 'qwe asd'

s = ur'qwe\\u0020asd'  #gives a Unicode string 'qwe\\\\u0020asd' (the desired format for use in regular expressions.

s = u'qwe\u0020asd'.encode('utf-8')  #gives an encoding of the Unicode string in the specified encoding ('utf-8')

s1 = unicode(s, 'utf-8')  #gives a Unicode string after decoding the content of s according to specified encoding