> The nice thing about hex-escaped characters is that I can look up the > character code to find out what the character is. Hard to do that > with a glyph that I don't recognize.
Not that difficult. Suppose I have the character Ә, I just do py> unicodedata.name(u"Ә") 'CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SCHWA' I used cut-n-paste to insert the character into the interactive prompt; that worked just fine. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com