How to convert an accented character in an unicode string to its unicode character code using Python?

Question

Just wonder how to convert a unicode string like u'é' to its unicode character code u'\xe9'?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 17 '10 at 03:23

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You can use Python's repr() function:

>>> unicode_char = u'é'
>>> repr(unicode_char)
"u'\\xe9'"

answered Aug 17 '10 at 03:23

Andrew

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 17 '10 at 03:25

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ord will give you the numeric value, but you'll have to convert it into hex:

>>> ord(u'é')
233

answered Aug 17 '10 at 03:25

Peter Milley

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 17 '10 at 07:55

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u'é' and u'\xe9' are exactly the same, they are just different representations:

>>> u'é' == u'\xe9'
True

answered Aug 17 '10 at 07:55

The expression evaluate to True in python but False in ipython. Any reason why that happens? Thank you! – boativan66 Aug 17 '10 at 20:21
@boativan66: you might have converted it to `u'e\u0301'` during a copy-paste. Try `unicodedata.normalize('NFC', u'é') == u'\xe9'` – jfs Oct 14 '15 at 06:14

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