pythonvariablesunicodesuperscript

Superscript for a variable

I want to print out a variable as a superscript. I have done a lot of research and lots of people use the method of Unicode. Which is something like print("word\u00b2") where the 2 will be in superscript. However, I want to replace the 2 with a variable. These are the methods I have tried

print("word\u00b{variable}")
print("word\u00b{}".format(variable))
print("word\u00b%s" % variable)

and of course with the back slash

print("word\u00b\{variable}")
print("word\u00b\{}".format(variable))
print("word\u00b\%s" % variable)

As well, I have also tried something like

variable = variable.decode(u\"u00b")

None of the above worked as I kept getting

(unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 5-9: truncated \uXXXX escape

Some help will be appreciated.

Solution

  • The escape code \u00b2 is a single character; you want something like

    >>> print(eval(r'"\u00b' + str(2) + '"'))
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    Less convolutedly,

    >>> print(chr(0x00b2))
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    This only works for superscript 2 and 3, though; the other Unicode superscripts are in a different code block.

    >>> for i in range(10):
...   if i == 1:
...     print(chr(0x00b9))
...   elif 2 <= i <= 3:
...     print(chr(0x00b0 + i))
...   else:
...     print(chr(0x2070 + i))
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