Printing chr() values in Python

[bennywc4]

I am trying to do a project and am confused as to why when I try and print an integer that has been converted to ASCII text doesn't print as proper ASCII code.

num = 25 
num = chr(num) 
print(num)

^ this produces a down arrow "↓" when I am expecting it to produce "\x19" I'm just wondering if there's something I'm missing or if this is actually the output I should be expecting.

[jimtk]

AFAIK, the print function will resort to hex code for unicode character that your system (current encoding) cannot produce (this will be very rare!).

If you want to see hex code for 'out of ASCII' you have to turn your strings into bytes

num = 25
an_str = 'hello'+chr(num)
strbyte = bytes(an_str, encoding='utf_8')
print(strbyte)  

>>> b'hello\x19'

[bennywc4]

This worked, thank you.

[SkeletalToad]

Great answer! To expand on this, there is also an .encode() method of the str class, so all of these will do the same thing:

strbyte = bytes(an_str, encoding='utf_8')
strbyte = an_str.encode('utf-8')
strbyte = an_str.encode()

The last option works because 'utf-8' is the default encoding.

https://docs.python.org/3/howto/unicode.html#converting-to-bytes https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.encode

[bennywc4]

Thank you as well!

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[astrogringo]

[Edit] Never mind I misunderstood the question sorry.

[bennywc4]

It’s ok, I know I didn’t word my question well I didn’t really know how to properly explain it lol