[Tutor] unicode question

[Alex Kleider]

I've been playing around with unicode a bit and found that the
following code doesn't behave as I might have expected:

Python 3.9.2 (default, Feb 28 2021, 17:03:44)
[GCC 10.2.1 20210110] on linux
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>>> print("\N{middle dot}")
·
>>>
>>> middle_dot = '0140', '013F', '00B7', '2027'
>>> ucode = ['\\u' + dot for dot in middle_dot]
>>> for dot in ucode:
...     print(dot)
...
\u0140
\u013F
\u00B7
\u2027
>>> print("\u0140")
ŀ
>>> print("\u013f")
Ŀ
>>> print("\u00b7")  # the one I want
·
>>> print("\u2027")
‧
>>>

I was expecting the for loop to output the same as the last four print
statements but, alas, not so.
Comments would be welcome.
Sincerely,
Alex

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