python3 raw strings and \u escapes

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On 16/06/2012 00:42, Jason Friedman wrote:
> This is a related question.
>
> I perform an octal dump on a file:
> $ od -cx file
> 0000000   h   e   l   l   o       w   o   r   l   d  \n
>             6568    6c6c    206f    6f77    6c72    0a64
>
> I want to output the names of those characters:
> $ python3
> Python 3.2.3 (default, May 19 2012, 17:01:30)
> [GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>  import unicodedata
>>>>  unicodedata.name("\u0068")
> 'LATIN SMALL LETTER H'
>>>>  unicodedata.name("\u0065")
> 'LATIN SMALL LETTER E'
>
> But, how to do this programatically:
>>>>  first_two_letters = "6568    6c6c    206f    6f77    6c72    0a64".split()[0]
>>>>  first_two_letters
> '6568'
>>>>  first_letter = "00" + first_two_letters[2:]
>>>>  first_letter
> '0068'
>
> Now what?

 >>> hex_code = "65"
 >>> unicodedata.name(chr(int(hex_code, 16)))
'LATIN SMALL LETTER E'