Getting the code of a character ?

[Sean Blakey]

On Sep 12 at 11:13P, Gilles Lenfant wrote:
> Yes, a real newbie question !
> How to get the code number of a character like :
> x = asc("x") in stupid Basic ?
> 
> TIA

I don't know Basic, but it sounds like you ar elooking for the built-in
ord() function:
>>>ord('x')
120
>>>map(ord, 'spam')
[115, 112, 97, 109]
>>>
    -Sean

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