> Where are the literals (i.e. u'\N{DEGREE SIGN}') defined? I found > http://www.unicode.org/Public/5.1.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt > Is that the place to look?
Correct - you are supposed to fill in a Unicode character name into the \N escape. The specific list of names depends on the version of the UCD which was used in the specific Python version, but the characters you are likely interested in probably had been defined "forever". Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list