How do I display unicode value stored in a string variable using ord()

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 2:38 AM,  <wxjmfauth at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry guys, I'm not stupid (I think). I can open IDLE with
> Py 3.2 ou Py 3.3 and compare strings manipulations. Py 3.3 is
> always slower. Period.

Ah, but what about all those other operations that use strings under
the covers? As mentioned, namespace lookups do, among other things.
And how is performance in the (very real) case where a C routine wants
to return a value to Python as a string, where the data is currently
guaranteed to be ASCII (previously using PyUnicode_FromString, now
able to use PyUnicode_FromKindAndData)? Again, I'm sure this has been
gone into in great detail before the PEP was accepted (am I
negative-bikeshedding here? "atomic reactoring"???), and I'm sure that
the gains outweigh the costs.

ChrisA