Quickie: converting r"\x2019" to int

[Robin Haswell]

Hey guys. This should just be a quickie: I can't figure out how to convert
r"\x2019" to an int - could someone give me a hand please?

Cheers

-Rob

[Kent Johnson]

Robin Haswell wrote:

Hey guys. This should just be a quickie: I can't figure out how to convert
r"\x2019" to an int - could someone give me a hand please?

Is this what you mean?
In [9]: int(r'\x2019'[2:], 16)
Out[9]: 8217

or maybe you meant this:
In [6]: ord(u'\u2019')
Out[6]: 8217

Kent

[Just]

In article <44**********@newspeer2.tds.net>,
Kent Johnson <ke**@kentsjohnson.com> wrote:

Robin Haswell wrote:

Hey guys. This should just be a quickie: I can't figure out how to convert
r"\x2019" to an int - could someone give me a hand please?

Is this what you mean?
In [9]: int(r'\x2019'[2:], 16)
Out[9]: 8217

or maybe you meant this:
In [6]: ord(u'\u2019')
Out[6]: 8217

Or even:

import struct
struct.unpack("q", "\0\0"+ r'\x2019')[0] 101671307850041L

Who knows :)

Just

[Fredrik Lundh]

Just wrote:

Robin Haswell wrote:

Hey guys. This should just be a quickie: I can't figure out how to convert
r"\x2019" to an int - could someone give me a hand please?

Is this what you mean?
In [9]: int(r'\x2019'[2:], 16)
Out[9]: 8217

or maybe you meant this:
In [6]: ord(u'\u2019')
Out[6]: 8217

Or even:

>>> import struct
>>> struct.unpack("q", "\0\0"+ r'\x2019')[0] 101671307850041L >>>
Who knows :)

I think we can be pretty sure that he didn't mean

import unicodedata unicodedata.numeric(u"\u2019") Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: not a numeric character

though...
unicodedata.name(u"\u2019")

'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK'

</F>

[Robin Haswell]

On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:00:13 +0200, Just wrote:

In article <44**********@newspeer2.tds.net>,
Kent Johnson <ke**@kentsjohnson.com> wrote:

Robin Haswell wrote:

Is this what you mean?
In [9]: int(r'\x2019'[2:], 16)
Out[9]: 8217

or maybe you meant this:
In [6]: ord(u'\u2019')
Out[6]: 8217

Or even:
>>> import struct
>>> struct.unpack("q", "\0\0"+ r'\x2019')[0] 101671307850041L >>>

rob@aranea:~$ python
Python 2.4.2 (#2, Sep 30 2005, 21:19:01)
[GCC 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.0.1-4ubuntu8)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. int("\x2019") 19
Something like that. Except with:
int(r"\x2019") Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: invalid literal for int(): \x2019

:-)

-Rob

[Frank Millman]

Robin Haswell wrote:

rob@aranea:~$ python
Python 2.4.2 (#2, Sep 30 2005, 21:19:01)
[GCC 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.0.1-4ubuntu8)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

int("\x2019") 19
Something like that. Except with:
int(r"\x2019") Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: invalid literal for int(): \x2019

:-)

-Rob

I decided to use this as a learning exercise for myself. This is what I
figured out. All quotes are paraphrased from the docs.

"\xhh in a string substitutes the character with the hex value hh.
Unlike in Standard C, at most two hex digits are accepted."

\x20 is equal to a space. Therefore '\x2019' is equal to ' 19'.

"int(x) converts a string or number to a plain integer. If the argument
is a string, it must contain a possibly signed decimal number
representable as a Python integer, possibly embedded in whitespace."

Therefore int(' 19') is equal to 19.

"When an 'r' prefix is present, a character following a backslash is
included in the string without change, and all backslashes are left in
the string".

Therefore r'\x2019' is left unchanged, and cannot be converted to an
int.

Rob, this explains *why* you are getting the above error. It does not
explain how to achieve your objective, as you have not specified what
it is. If you give more information, one of the resident gurus may be
able to assist you.

Frank Millman

[Serge Orlov]

Robin Haswell wrote:

Hey guys. This should just be a quickie: I can't figure out how to convert
r"\x2019" to an int - could someone give me a hand please?

int(r'\x2019'.decode('string_escape'))

19

[Robin Haswell]

> Therefore r'\x2019' is left unchanged, and cannot be converted to an

int.

Rob, this explains *why* you are getting the above error. It does not
explain how to achieve your objective, as you have not specified what
it is. If you give more information, one of the resident gurus may be
able to assist you.
Thanks, I think that helps.

Basically I'm decoding HTML character references. "&#x2019" is a character
reference, equal to a single quote (ish).
http://ganesh.bronco.co.uk/example.html is the character in action. I want
to get from the string "x2019" to the Unicode character ’.

However, your help has lead me to a solution!

u"\u2019" u'\u2019' unichr(int("2019", 16)) u'\u2019'

That's got it - thanks :-)

-Rob
Frank Millman’