On Sun, Jan 6, 2013, at 11:43 AM, Franck Ditter wrote: > Hi ! > I work on MacOS-X Lion and IDLE/Python 3.3.0 > I can't get the treble key (U1D11E) ! > > >>> "\U1D11E" > SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't > decode bytes in position 0-6: end of string in escape sequence >
You probably meant: >>> '\U0001d11e' For that synax you must use either '\uXXXX' or '\UXXXXXXXX' (i.e. specify either 4 or 8 hex digits). http://docs.python.org/2/howto/unicode#unicode-literals-in-python-source-code -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list