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Python code point- “An integer in the range 0 to 0x10FFFF used to identify an entry in the Unicode character database. As of Unicode 7.0, less than 3% of all code points are assigned to characters. In the Python documentation, the term may be spelled as one or two words. For example, in Chapter 2, 'Built-in Functions,' of the Python Library Reference, the chr function is said to take an integer 'codepoint,' while its inverse, ord, is described as returning a 'Unicode code point'.” (FlntPy 2022)

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A code point, codepoint or code position is a particular position in a table, where the position has been assigned a meaning. The table may be one dimensional (a column), two dimensional (like cells in a spreadsheet), three dimensional (sheets in a workbook), etc... in any number of dimensions.

Technically, a code point is a unique position in a quantized n-dimensional space, where the position has been assigned a semantic meaning. The table has discrete (whole) and positive positions (1, 2, 3, 4, but not fractions).

Code points are used in a multitude of formal information processing and telecommunication standards. For example ITU-T Recommendation T.35 contains a set of country codes for telecommunications equipment (originally fax machines) which allow equipment to indicate its country of manufacture or operation. In T.35, Argentina is represented by the code point 0x07, Canada by 0x20, Gambia by 0x41, etc.

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“code point - a single character (e.g., glyph, control character, or modifier) in a character set. Unicode comprises 1,114,112 code points. ASCII comprises 128 code points. Unicode Literals (129)” (EMCppSfe 2021)

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