Converting numbers to unicode charaters

[Duncan Booth]

Laurent Pointal <laurent.pointal at limsi.fr> wrote:

> You may eventually use a more condensed expression and avoid n 
> concatenation of n chars using join, like this:
> 
> >>> u''.join(unichr(int(x,16)) for x in ['42','72','61','64'])
> u'Brad'

Or even avoid the loop completely:

>>> hexs = ['42', '72', '61', '64']
>>> u'\\x'.join(['']+hexs).decode('string-escape')
'Brad'

(but for that to work you really do need to be sure that all the values are 
2 characters).