Character string to ascii value conversion

[Jeff Pinyan]

[posted & mailed]

On Mar 9, Emile van Sebille said:

>I spent a few minutes looking for a function to convert
>a binary string into a number for a project I'm working
[...]
>My question is where is this in the standard library?

Sounds like you want struct.pack or struct.unpack.

  import struct
  def asc (string):
    # struct.unpack always returns a tuple...
    return (struct.unpack("L",string))[0]

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