32-bit unicode in python

Question

Python has an escape sequence \\u\u003c/code> to display unicode values. However this is restricted to only 16 bit unicode values. That is

>>> '\u1020'
'ဠ'

Whereas 32 bit uncode values do not work. That is

>>> '\u00001000'
'\x001000'

Which is obviously wrong. The python documentation mentions

The escape sequence \ indicates to insert the Unicode character with the ordinal value 0x0020 (the space character) at the given position.

Answer 1

The python How To Unicode clearly mentions the use of '\\U' to represent 32-bit unicode sequences.

>>> "\u0394"                          # Using a 16-bit hex value
'Δ'
>>> "\U00000394"                      # Using a 32-bit hex value
'Δ'

In this case

>>> '\U00001000'
'က'