Python Question
Showing text representation of Unicode symbol in Python 3
I can do this in my ipython notebook:
print(u"\u2605")
★
But how do I go backwards? That is, going from the symbol to the unicode string. Encoding it in UTF-8 or UTF-16 is giving binary representations. For example:
print('★'.encode('utf-16'))
b'\xff\xfe\x05&'
Answer Source
You can use unicode-escape encoding:
>>> '★'.encode('unicode-escape')
b'\\u2605'
>>> print('★'.encode('unicode-escape').decode())
\u2605
or ord if you just want to know the codepoint:
>>> ord('★')
9733
>>> hex(ord('★')) # as hexa decimal
'0x2605'
>>> print(r'\u%x' % ord('★'))
\u2605