Wesley Brooks wrote:
I'm trying to create a unicode character from two bytes. Unfortunatly
I'm getting a "UnicodeDecodeError". Can some one please suggest an
alternative way of doing what's bellow? In the example bellow the two
bytes have been converted into a string hex value, but they could just
as easily be an integer or binary value if either is easier to deal
with.
Python 2.4.3 - Enthought Edition 1.0.0 (#69, Aug 2 2006, 12:09:59) [MSC v.1310
32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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a = u"\u%s%s" %('0d', 'fe')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 0-2: tr
uncated \uXXXX escape
Nice try :)
Unfortunately, if you think about what's happening here, the
"string interpreter" bit of Python is getting to that
unicode-escape before the "%-processing" bit of Python.
So Python's trying --and failing-- to interpret \u%s%s as some sort of
bizarre unicode escape.
Can you not just use the unichr function?
TJG
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