itoa() ?

[Erik Max Francis]

yvan wrote:

> I would like to retrieve a character value from its integer ASCII
> value.
>
> For example:
> 72 would give me the letter H

You want chr:

Python 2.1.1 (#6, Sep  2 2001, 10:26:49) 
[GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] on linux2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> chr(72)
'H'


itoa is a non-Standard C function that does something totally unrelated.

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