Curses and Character Handling

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stormandstress at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm writing a program that is dependent on the curses library and
> functions for python, and I'm a little puzzled by the way characters
> are handled. The basics of the program are that a character is taken
> from input and put into a certain position within a list (There's more
> to it than that, but I think it's irrelevant). The problem is, when a
> character is taken via the <window>.getch() function, what comes back
> is an int corresponding to it's value ('a' = 97, 'b'=98, etc.). Now,
> what I need to store is the character representation of this function -
> it's not enough to simply have the 97/98 in the list, I need the 'a',
> 'b', etc.
>
> Does anyone know of a solution to this, ideally in the form of a
> built-in function that takes these numbers and returns the proper
> character value? Obviously, str(<value>) doesn't work, as it just
> returns '<value>'. I've read as many docs as I could lay my hands down,
> and while the ord() function is useful for going the other way
> (character to int), I need the reverse.

>>> chr(97)
'a'


>
> If there's any other information you need in relation to this problem,
> I'll post it, of course.
> 
> Thanks in advance.