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How do I display unicode value stored in a string variable using ord()

lipska the kat lipskathekat at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Aug 19 06:49:21 EDT 2012 
On 19/08/12 11:19, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 8:13 PM, lipska the kat
> <lipskathekat at yahoo.co.uk>  wrote:
>> The date stamp is different but the Python version is the same
>
> Check out what 'sys.maxunicode' is in each of those Pythons. It's
> possible that one is a wide build and the other narrow.

Ah ...

I built my local version from source
and no, I didn't read the makefile so I didn't configure for a wide 
build :-( not that I would have known the difference at that time.

[lipska at ubuntu ~]$ python3.2
Python 3.2.3 (default, Jul 17 2012, 14:23:10)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import sys
 >>> sys.maxunicode
65535
 >>>

Later, I did an apt-get install idle3 which pulled
down a precompiled IDLE from the Ubuntu repos
This was obviously compiled 'wide'

Python 3.2.3 (default, May  3 2012, 15:51:42)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
==== No Subprocess ====
 >>> import sys
 >>> sys.maxunicode
1114111
 >>>

All very interesting and enlightening

Thanks

lipska

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