For instance if my string contains - 'नमस्ते' how do I print all the unicode escape sequence for the alphabets in the string.
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If you want the \u escapes for each character (what you'd type to redefine the string in pure ASCII Python code), use the unicode-escape codec:
>>> 'नमसत'.encode('unicode-escape')
b'\\u0928\\u092e\\u0938\\u0924'
If it needs to end up a str, rather than bytes, decode it back as ASCII (and remove the quoting and doubled backslashes on display by printing it):
>>> print('नमसत'.encode('unicode-escape').decode('ascii'))
\u0928\u092e\u0938\u0924
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PM 2Ring
It looks like you lost a few chars there. For the OP's string of
'नमस्ते' I get b'\\u0928\\u092e\\u0938\\u094d\\u0924\\u0947'
ShadowRanger
@PM2Ring: Sigh. Stupid terminal didn't support the characters, probably lost it in the copy & paste. I hope the OP gets the idea. :-)
sudha
Thanks for the answer! One more question, is there any way I could map the individual unicode escape sequence to its utf-8 symbol?
>>> s = "नमस्ते"
>>> s.encode('utf-8')
b'\xe0\xa4\xa8\xe0\xa4\xae\xe0\xa4\xb8\xe0\xa5\x8d\xe0\xa4\xa4\xe0\xa5\x87'
>>> s.encode('unicode-escape')
b'\\u0928\\u092e\\u0938\\u094d\\u0924\\u0947'
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