Python Unicode Conversion for character 'ñ'

Question

I have to print Unicode of char 'ñ' Eg Input - 'Piñeiro' Output - 'Pi\xf1eiro' (Codecs Used - raw_unicode_escape) Expected - 'Piñeiro'

I tried other standard encoding and text encoding codecs from https://docs.python.org/3/library/codecs.html#text-encodings but seems non of this from the table is producing the required output

Any suggestions on which encoding module is required to get required output?

Answer 1

If you are trying to print out Piñeiro -- a string of length 11 -- and not Piñeiro -- a string of length 7, you could do

In [93]: mytext = "Pi\u00f1eiro"

In [94]: print(mytext)
Piñeiro

In [95]: new_text = "".join(["\\u{:04x}".format(ord(c)) if ord(c) > 0x7f else c for c in mytext])

In [96]: print(new_text)
Pi\u00f1eiro

In [97]: new_text
Out[97]: 'Pi\\u00f1eiro'

How you determine which characters to show like this is up to you. I somewhat arbitrarly picked any characters whose unicode code unit is greater than 007F .