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

[Paul Rubin]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> writes:
>>>> "asdfqwer"[4:]
> 'qwer'
>
> That's a not uncommon operation when parsing strings or manipulating
> data. You'd need to completely rework your algorithms to maintain a
> position somewhere.

Scanning 4 characters (or a few dozen, say) to peel off a token in
parsing a UTF-8 string is no big deal.  It gets more expensive if you
want to index far more deeply into the string.  I'm asking how often
that is done in real code.  Obviously one can concoct hypothetical
examples that would suffer.