Question

How do I convert between a hanzi character and it’s unicode value as depicted below?

• 与 to U+4E0E
• 今 to U+4ECA
• 令 to U+4EE4
• 免 to U+514D

Appears unsupported by default:

>>> a = '安'

Unsupported characters in input

Answer 1

The small ‘u’ in front of the quote indicates that a Unicode string is supposed to be created.

>>> a = u'与'
>>> a
u'\u4e0e'

See the the string documentation for more information: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/introduction.html#unicode-strings

Update:
Set the source file encoding according to the actual encoding of the file, so that the interpreter knows how to parse it.

For example, to use UTF-8 just add this string to the header of the file:

# -*- coding: utf8 -*-