[Tutor] Creating a unicode string from bytes and % opperator

[Wesley Brooks]

Thanks Tim Golden,

That'll do the trick! Thought there must have been something simple for it!

Cheers,

Wesley Brooks

2008/7/28 Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>:
> Wesley Brooks wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to create a unicode character from two bytes. Unfortunatly
>> I'm getting a "UnicodeDecodeError". Can some one please suggest an
>> alternative way of doing what's bellow? In the example bellow the two
>> bytes have been converted into a string hex value, but they could just
>> as easily be an integer or binary value if either is easier to deal
>> with.
>>
>> Python 2.4.3 - Enthought Edition 1.0.0 (#69, Aug  2 2006, 12:09:59) [MSC
>> v.1310
>> 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>>
>>>>> a = u"\u%s%s" %('0d', 'fe')
>>
>> UnicodeDecodeError: 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position
>> 0-2: tr
>> uncated \uXXXX escape
>
> Nice try :)
>
> Unfortunately, if you think about what's happening here, the
> "string interpreter" bit of Python is getting to that
> unicode-escape before the "%-processing" bit of Python.
> So Python's trying --and failing-- to interpret \u%s%s as some sort of
> bizarre unicode escape.
>
> Can you not just use the unichr function?
>
> TJG
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