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this escape sequence. Exactly four hex digits are required.
(6)
- Any Unicode character can be encoded this way, but characters outside the Basic
- Multilingual Plane (BMP) will be encoded using a surrogate pair if Python is
- compiled to use 16-bit code units (the default). Exactly eight hex digits
+ Any Unicode character can be encoded this way. Exactly eight hex digits
are required.