Can't use unichr in Python 3.1

Question

I\'ve been looking through the Python Cookbook (2nd Edition) to learn how to process strings and characters.

I wanted to try converting a number into its

Answer 1

In case you need to run in both python 2 and python 3, you can use this common syntax (the unused syntax would point to the new one)

try:
    unichr
except NameError:
    unichr = chr

Answer 2

Python 3.x doesn't have a special Unicode string type/class. Every string is a Unicode string. So... I'd try chr. Should give you what unichr did pre-3.x. Can't test, sadly.

Answer 3

In Python 3, you just use chr:

>>> chr(10000)
'✐'

Answer 4

As suggestted by this is a better way to do it for it is compatible for both 2 and 3:

# Python 2 and 3:
from builtins import chr
assert chr(8364) == '€'

And you may need pip install future incase some error occures.

Answer 5

In Python 3, there's no difference between unicode and normal strings anymore. Only between unicode strings and binary data. So the developers finally removed the unichr function in favor of a common chr which now does what the old unichr did. See the documentation here.