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

[wxjmfauth at gmail.com]

Le samedi 18 août 2012 20:40:23 UTC+2, rusi a écrit :
> On Aug 18, 10:59 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve
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> +comp.lang.pyt... at pearwood.info> wrote:
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> > On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 08:07:05 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote:
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> > > Is there any reason why non ascii users are somehow penalized compared
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> > > to ascii users?
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> > Of course there is a reason.
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> > If you want to represent 1114111 different characters in a string, as
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> > Unicode supports, you can't use a single byte per character, or even two
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> > bytes. That is a fact of basic mathematics. Supporting 1114111 characters
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> > must be more expensive than supporting 128 of them.
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> > But why should you carry the cost of 4-bytes per character just because
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> > someday you *might* need a non-BMP character?
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> I am reminded of: http://answers.microsoft.com/thread/720108ee-0a9c-4090-b62d-bbd5cb1a7605
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> Original above does not open for me but here's a copy that does:
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> http://onceuponatimeinindia.blogspot.in/2009/07/hard-drive-weight-increasing.html

I thing it's time to leave the discussion and to go to bed.

You can take the problem the way you wish, Python 3.3 is "slower"
than Python 3.2.

If you see the present status as an optimisation, I'm condidering
this as a regression.

I'm pretty sure a pure ucs-4/utf-32 can only be, by nature,
the correct solution.

To be extreme, tools using pure utf-16 or utf-32 are, at least,
considering all the citizen on this planet in the same way.

jmf