Get the UTF-8 code of a character in Python or shell

Question

How can I get the UTF-8 code Unicode code point ¹ of any single character in Python or in the shell?

I’d like to have (see here for distinguishing between "plus" and "full plus" signs):

getUTF8('＋')
> U+FF0B

getUTF8('+')
> U+002B

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1 Correct terminology, as per the comments.

Answer 1

Using bash, zsh or ksh93 with a UTF-8 aware locale:

$ printf "U+%04X\n" "'＋" "'+"
U+FF0B
U+002B

When their builtin versions of printf(1) see a numeric format specifier (Like %X), and the first character of the relevant argument (After the usual shell wordsplitting and parsing) is a double or single quote, the next character's codepoint value is taken as the argument, instead of the character itself.

Answer 2

Here’s a Python version:

def code_point(c):
   return "U+{:04X}".format(ord(c))

With above example:

for c in ['＋', '+']:
   print(code_point(c))

> U+FF0B
> U+002B