Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:
>>> import unicodedata
>>> unicodedata.lookup('KEYCAP NUMBER SIGN')
'#️'
>>> print(ascii(unicodedata.lookup('KEYCAP NUMBER SIGN')))
'#\ufe0f\u20e3'
Support of Unicode Named Character Sequences in the unicodeescape codec and in
the RE parser would be a new
Matthew Barnett added the comment:
They're not supported in string literals either:
Python 3.10.1 (tags/v3.10.1:2cd268a, Dec 6 2021, 19:10:37) [MSC v.1929 64 bit
(AMD64)] on win32
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>>> "\N{KEYCAP NUMBER SIGN}"
File "",
New submission from Jirka Marsik :
re.compile(r"\N{name of Unicode Named Character Sequence}"), e.g.
re.compile(r"\N{KEYCAP NUMBER SIGN}"), throws a TypeError. The regular
expression parser relies on 'unicodedata' to lookup character names. The
'unicodedata' module recently added support for
