On 16/06/2012 00:42, Jason Friedman wrote:
This is a related question.
I perform an octal dump on a file:
$ od -cx file
0000000 h e l l o w o r l d \n
6568 6c6c 206f 6f77 6c72 0a64
I want to output the names of those characters:
$ python3
Python 3.2.3 (default, May 19 2012, 17:01:30)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
import unicodedata
unicodedata.name("\u0068")
'LATIN SMALL LETTER H'
unicodedata.name("\u0065")
'LATIN SMALL LETTER E'
But, how to do this programatically:
first_two_letters = "6568 6c6c 206f 6f77 6c72 0a64".split()[0]
first_two_letters
'6568'
first_letter = "00" + first_two_letters[2:]
first_letter
'0068'
Now what?
>>> hex_code = "65"
>>> unicodedata.name(chr(int(hex_code, 16)))
'LATIN SMALL LETTER E'
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