unicode study with unicodedata module

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On 15 Mar 2005 04:55:17 -0800, rumours say that "Xah Lee" <xah at xahlee.org> might
have written:

>how do i get a unicode's number?
>
>e.g. 03ba for greek lowercase kappa? (or in decimal form)

you get the character with:

.>> uc = u"\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA}"

or with

.>> uc = unicodedata.lookup("GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA")

and you get the ordinal with:

.>> ord(uc)

ord works for strings and unicode.
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