Question

Basically what I want to do is print u’\u1001′, but I do not want the 1001 hardcoded. Is there a way I can use a variable or string for this? Also, it would be nice if I could retrieve this code again, when I use the output as input.

Answer 1

According to the python doc on unicode (located Here):

One-character Unicode strings can also be created with the unichr()
built-in function, which takes integers and returns a Unicode string
of length 1 that contains the corresponding code point. The reverse
operation is the built-in ord() function that takes a one-character
Unicode string and returns the code point value:

unichr(40960) 

results in the character :
u’\ua000′