python ascii encoding code example

Example 1: python ascii

>>> ord('a')
97
>>> chr(97)
'a'
>>> chr(ord('a') + 3)
'd'
>>>

Example 2: python unicode point to utf8 string

#! /usr/bin/python3
import re

def makeNice(s):
    return re.subn('(#U[0-9a-f]{4})', lambda cp: chr(int(cp.groups()[0][2:],16)), s) [0]

a = '-#U2605-#U79c1-'
print(a, makeNice(a))

Example 3: python ascii()

#changes non_ascii chars to unicode and vice versa
text = 'Pythön is interesting'
print(ascii(text))
#prints 'Pyth\xf6n is interesting'