ValueError: unichr() arg not in range(0x10000) (narrow Python build)

Question

I am trying to convert the html entity to unichar, the html entity is 󮠖 when i try to do the following:

unichr(int(976918))
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Answer 1

Here's an alternate workaround that I developed with the struct module.

def unichar(i):
    try:
        return unichr(i)
    except ValueError:
        return struct.pack('i', i).decode('utf-32')

>>> unichar(int('976918'))
u'\U000ee816'