On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:19:28 -0600, jyoung79 wrote: > If I have a string like so: > > a = '\\u03B1' > > and I want to make it display a Greek alpha character, is there a way to > convert it to unicode ('\u03B1')? I tried concatenating it like this: > > '\u' + '03B1' > > but that didn't work. I'm working in Python 3.0 and was curious if this > could be done.
This is from Python 2.5: >>> print unichr(0x03B1) α I don't have Python 3 here, but I guess that you would just use chr() instead of unichr(). If you literally have to start with the actual string '\\u03B1' (that is, backslash lowercase-U zero three uppercase-B one), then I'd do this: >>> s = '\\u03B1' >>> if s.startswith('\\u'): ... s = s[2:] ... >>> print unichr(int(s, 16)) α -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list