>> 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'
Very helpful, thank you MRAB.
The finished product: http://pastebin.com/4egQcke2.
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