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Re: Problem with Unicode char in Python 3.3.0

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On Sun, Jan 6, 2013, at 11:43 AM, Franck Ditter wrote:
> Hi !
> I work on MacOS-X Lion and IDLE/Python 3.3.0
> I can't get the treble key (U1D11E) !
> 
> >>> "\U1D11E"
> SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't 
> decode bytes in position 0-6: end of string in escape sequence
> 

You probably meant:

>>> '\U0001d11e'


For that synax you must use either '\uXXXX' or '\UXXXXXXXX' (i.e.
specify either 4 or 8 hex digits).

http://docs.python.org/2/howto/unicode#unicode-literals-in-python-source-code

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Problem with Unicode char in Python 3.3.0 Franck Ditter <nobody@nowhere.org> - 2013-01-06 17:43 +0100
  Re: Problem with Unicode char in Python 3.3.0 Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-01-06 18:03 +0100
  Re: Problem with Unicode char in Python 3.3.0 marduk <marduk@python.net> - 2013-01-06 12:10 -0500
    Re: Problem with Unicode char in Python 3.3.0 Franck Ditter <nobody@nowhere.org> - 2013-01-07 13:57 +0100
      Re: Problem with Unicode char in Python 3.3.0 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-01-08 00:04 +1100
      Re: Problem with Unicode char in Python 3.3.0 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-01-07 08:12 -0500
      Re: Problem with Unicode char in Python 3.3.0 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-01-08 03:40 -0500

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