What unicode character has a certain value?

[Gerhard Haering]

* DogWalker <forestiero at qwest.net> [2002-07-23 15:29 -0700]:
> How would I convert the value of a unicode character to a unicode string;

unichr

> a unicode string to an ascii string (if possible);

.encode(encoding, conflict_strategy=None)

for example: u"foobar".encode("utf-16")

> a unicode character to a decimal number.

ord

> If I have the decimal value for a unicode character, how do I convert it to
> a unicode character?  A unicode apostrophe has a decimal value of 8217. How
> do I get a string with an apostrophe starting with 8217?
> 
>    x = 8217
>    s = ??x

s = unichr(8217)

Gerhard
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reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))