Python Jupyter Notebook: How to print unicode characters from wikipedia hex value (like U+1F0A1)?

Question

I would like to use the playing card characters in unicode within a jupyter notebook.

Unicode codes are here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_cards_in_Unicode

Printing the suits works

print('\u2660')

returns

♠

As an example, the Ace of Spades 🂡 unicode is U+1F0A1.

I can paste that character and print it.

print('🂡') 

And I can encode this

'🂡'.encode('utf-8')

b'\xf0\x9f\x82\xa1'

But how do I print this by the code "U+1F0A1" from wikipedia?

Answer 1

There is another type of escape code (capital U) that requires eight digits:

>>> print('\U0001F0A1')
🂡

You can also print by converting a number:

>>> chr(0x1f0a1)
'🂡'
>>> print(chr(0x1f0a1))
🂡

So you can programmatically generate a 52-card desk as:

>>> suit = 0x1f0a0,0x1f0b0,0x1f0c0,0x1f0d0
>>> rank = 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,13,14
>>> for s in suit:
...     for r in rank:
...         print(chr(s+r),end='')
...     print()
... 
🂡🂢🂣🂤🂥🂦🂧🂨🂩🂪🂫🂭🂮
🂱🂲🂳🂴🂵🂶🂷🂸🂹🂺🂻🂽🂾
🃁🃂🃃🃄🃅🃆🃇🃈🃉🃊🃋🃍🃎
🃑🃒🃓🃔🃕🃖🃗🃘🃙🃚🃛🃝🃞