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Asked: 2026-06-04T01:09:41+00:00

i’m trying to print ascii or extended ascii character. using this code : print

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i’m trying to print ascii or extended ascii character. using this code :

print '\xff'.decode('latin-1')

it will print ascii #255, but now i want to input using decimal number like this :

num=255
myhex=hex(num) 
print myhex.decode('latin-1')

It doesn’t work coz myhex is ‘0xff’ , so i need to convert into ‘\xff’. replacing the ‘0x’ with ‘\x’ is giving me error. 

myhex.replace('0x','\x')

will give me error : ValueError: invalid \x escape

How to solve the problem? anyone can help ? the goal i want to print char -> ÿ in terminal/console.

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  1. Editorial Team

    what you’re searching for is

    chr(255)

    In python2, that gives you a character with binary value 255. If you print that to a terminal that uses UTF8, it will show up as ? (or similar) because the terminal doesn’t know what to do with it. To convert that to it’s unicode codepoint, you can decode it:

    chr(255).decode('latin1')

    In python3, chr(255) already gives you the unicode charcter 'LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS'.

    you could also do the same in python2 using

    unichr(255)
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