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

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"Steven D'Aprano"  wrote in message 
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On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 01:09:26 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote:

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If you can consistently replicate a 100% to 1000% slowdown in string
handling, please report it as a performance bug:

http://bugs.python.org/

Don't forget to report your operating system.

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For interest, I ran your code snippets on my laptop (Intel core-i7 1.8GHz) 
running Windows 7 x64.

Running Python from a Windows command prompt,  I got the following on Python 
3.2.3 and 3.3 beta 2:

python33\python" -m timeit "('abc' * 1000).replace('c', 'de')"
10000 loops, best of 3: 39.3 usec per loop
python33\python" -m timeit "('ab…' * 1000).replace('…', '……')"
10000 loops, best of 3: 51.8 usec per loop
python33\python" -m timeit "('ab…' * 1000).replace('…', 'x…')"
10000 loops, best of 3: 52 usec per loop
python33\python" -m timeit "('ab…' * 1000).replace('…', 'œ…')"
10000 loops, best of 3: 50.3 usec per loop
python33\python" -m timeit "('ab…' * 1000).replace('…', '€…')"
10000 loops, best of 3: 51.6 usec per loop
python33\python" -m timeit "('XYZ' * 1000).replace('X', 'éç')"
10000 loops, best of 3: 38.3 usec per loop
python33\python" -m timeit "('XYZ' * 1000).replace('Y', 'p?')"
10000 loops, best of 3: 50.3 usec per loop

python32\python" -m timeit "('abc' * 1000).replace('c', 'de')"
10000 loops, best of 3: 24.5 usec per loop
python32\python" -m timeit "('ab…' * 1000).replace('…', '……')"
10000 loops, best of 3: 24.7 usec per loop
python32\python" -m timeit "('ab…' * 1000).replace('…', 'x…')"
10000 loops, best of 3: 24.8 usec per loop
python32\python" -m timeit "('ab…' * 1000).replace('…', 'œ…')"
10000 loops, best of 3: 24 usec per loop
python32\python" -m timeit "('ab…' * 1000).replace('…', '€…')"
10000 loops, best of 3: 24.1 usec per loop
python32\python" -m timeit "('XYZ' * 1000).replace('X', 'éç')"
10000 loops, best of 3: 24.4 usec per loop
python32\python" -m timeit "('XYZ' * 1000).replace('Y', 'p?')"
10000 loops, best of 3: 24.3 usec per loop

This is an average slowdown by a factor of close to 2.3 on 3.3 when compared 
with 3.2.

I am not posting this to perpetuate this thread but simply to ask whether, 
as you suggest, I should report this as a possible problem with the beta?