Dumb noob q: ASCII value of a character

[John Hazen]

* Steve Horsley <shoot at the.moon> [2004-02-26 11:28]:
> How can I get the ASCII value of a character, e.g. I have:
> 
> str = "A B"
> for index in range(0, len(str)):
>    value = WHAT_GOES_HERE?(str[index])
>    print value
> 
> 
> and I hope to get:
> 65
> 32
> 66

ord.  

(And yes, it's a little hard to find.  The first time I had to
solve this problem, I used:

>>> import string
>>> string.index(string._idmap,'A')
65

)

Also of note:  Strings can be used as iterators, so there's no need to
use that indexing trick:

>>> str = "A B"
>>> for char in str:
...   print ord(char)
... 
65
32
66
>>> 


-John
< my_first_name AT my_last_name DOT net >