a simple unicode question

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Where are the literals (i.e. u'\N{DEGREE SIGN}') defined? I found
> http://www.unicode.org/Public/5.1.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt
> Is that the place to look?

Correct - you are supposed to fill in a Unicode character name into
the \N escape. The specific list of names depends on the version of
the UCD which was used in the specific Python version, but the
characters you are likely interested in probably had been defined
"forever".

Regards,
Martin