Quickie: converting r"\x2019" to int

[Fredrik Lundh]

Just wrote:

> > Robin Haswell wrote:
> > > Hey guys. This should just be a quickie: I can't figure out how to convert
> > > r"\x2019" to an int - could someone give me a hand please?
> >
> > Is this what you mean?
> > In [9]: int(r'\x2019'[2:], 16)
> > Out[9]: 8217
> >
> > or maybe you meant this:
> > In [6]: ord(u'\u2019')
> > Out[6]: 8217
>
> Or even:
>
>   >>> import struct
>   >>> struct.unpack("q", "\0\0"+ r'\x2019')[0]
>   101671307850041L
>   >>>
>
> Who knows :)

I think we can be pretty sure that he didn't mean

    >>> import unicodedata

    >>> unicodedata.numeric(u"\u2019")
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
    ValueError: not a numeric character

though...

    >>> unicodedata.name(u"\u2019")
    'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK'

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