In python 3.11 we can encode a string like:

string.encode(‘ascii’, ‘backslashreplace’)

Which works neatly for say: hellö => hell\xf6

However when I insert hellö w\xf6rld I get hell\xf6 w\xf6rld
(notice the second one has an literal part that looks like a character escape sequence)

Or in other words the following holds:

'hellö wörld'.encode('ascii', 'backslashreplace') == 'hellö w\xf6rld'.encode('ascii', 'backslashreplace')

Which obviously means that data has been lost by the encoding.

Is there a way to make python actually encode correctly? So also backslashes are escaped themselves? Or a library to do so?