Learning Python-Basic course: Day 8, Unicode in Python

🤟 Welcome! Till now, we have dealt enough with numbers. Now is the time to add Unicode to our arsenal.😎

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Unicode in Python

Python and Java support Unicode characters.😃 The ord() method converts a character into its Unicode code. It takes one argument: a string containing a single Unicode character. In other words, given string of length 1, the function returns an integer giving it's corresponding Unicode value. For example, ord('a') returns the integer 97, ord('€') (Euro sign) returns 8364.
Here is a sample which takes 10 characters and prints their Unicode values-

for i in range(-5,5):#same as (0,10)
 a=input("Please enter any character ")
 print(ord(a))

Here is a output-

Please enter any character Z
90
Please enter any character e
101
Please enter any character p
112
Please enter any character h
104
Please enter any character y
121
Please enter any character r
114
Please enter any character 1
49
Please enter any character 2
50
Please enter any character #
35
Please enter any character $
36

Try it out with your names too!!!

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The chr() function does just the opposite as the ord() function. It converts integers into Unicode characters. Example if we input 97, the output will be 'a', and chr(€)=8364

Here is a sample program print Unicode characters-

for i in range(0,4):
 n1=int(input("Please enter lower limit "))
 n2=int(input("Please enter upper limit "))
 for i in range(n1,n2):
  print(i," ",chr(i))

Now let us input some values. OUTPUT-

Please enter lower limit 33
Please enter upper limit 37
33   !
34   "
35   #
36   $
Please enter lower limit 57
Please enter upper limit 62
57   9
58   :
59   ;
60   <
61   =
Please enter lower limit 85
Please enter upper limit 89
85   U
86   V
87   W
88   X
Please enter lower limit 97
Please enter upper limit 103
97   a
98   b
99   c
100   d
101   e
102   f

Here is another sample to prove that ord() and chr() are absolutely opposite of each other

Istrue=True
#Istrue is a boolean value with value default True
for i in range(1,1000):
 a=chr(i)
 if(i!=ord(a)):
     Istrue=False
print(Istrue)

True

Exercise 1) If we interchange ord() and chr(), will the program still work? Answer: NO

2) Write a program to give the following output-

Please enter any capital letter G
A B C D E F G 
A B C D E F G 
A B C D E F G 
A B C D E F G 
A B C D E F G 
A B C D E F G 
A B C D E F G 

Answer here.

3) Modify the above program slightly to give the following output.

Please enter any capital letter G
A 
A B 
A B C 
A B C D 
A B C D E 
A B C D E F 
A B C D E F G 

Answer here.

4) Modify the above program to give the following output-

Please enter any capital letter K
A 
B A 
C B A 
D C B A 
E D C B A 
F E D C B A 
G F E D C B A 
H G F E D C B A 
I H G F E D C B A 
J I H G F E D C B A 
K J I H G F E D C B A 

Answer here.

The programs may look repetitive, but trust me, they provide a good practice for practicing nested for loops.

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✌️So friends that's all for now. 😊 Hope you all are having fun.😎 Please let me know in the comment section below 👇. And don't forget to like the post if you did. 😍 I am open to any suggestions or doubts. 🤠 Just post in the comments below or gmail me. 😉
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[Aatmaj]

Solution of yesterday's coding challenge is due tomorrow. So please try it and answer in the comment. Best of luck👍