In python, how do you get the escape sequence for any Unicode character?

Question

In python, what is the escape sequence for the left-double quote Unicode character “ (U+201C)?

left_double_quote = "“"

print(ord(left_double_quote)) # prints `8220`

Note that 201C is hexadecimal notation for the decimal number 8220

I tried somethings, but it did not work:

print("\x8220")
print("\x201C")
print("\0x201C")

In this specific case, `print("\u201C")`. It cannot use `\x` because that only accommodates two hex digits. Please see the linked duplicate for details. — Karl Knechtel, Apr 28 '23 at 02:10

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 28 '23 at 02:09

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You can use the \u escape to indicate you are specifying unicode bytes rather than hex (ASCII?) bytes.

So for your example, you can use this:

print("\u201c")

# output: “

answered Apr 28 '23 at 02:09

Matthias Fripp

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