whitespace and ?asc()?
Irmen de Jong
irmen at -NOSPAM-REMOVETHIS-xs4all.nl
Tue Jul 1 19:11:48 EDT 2003
Ray Tomes wrote:
> I was trying to find out the exact definition of whitespace so I went to
> look at strings.whitespace to find out which chars were whitespace, and
> found 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 32 which according to my ancient ascii chart
> are TAB, LF, VT, NP, CR, SPACE. Anyone know what NP = 12 is?
12 is not NP, but FF (Form Feed). Probably NP means New Page ??
(which is the same, actually...)
> Also, in trying to find the ASCII (or is it ANSI) values for characters
> I could not find the reverse function for chr() [in BASIC it is asc()]-
> can someone please tell me what reverses chr()?
ord! See the Library Reference, on builtin functions:
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-47
import string.
for c in string.whitespace:
print ord(c)
--Irmen
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