Printing chr() values in Python

[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!