computing with characters

[Arnaud Delobelle]

"Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> writes:

> En Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:19:22 -0300, SL <ni at hao.com> escribió:
>
>> "Lutz Horn" <lutz.georg.horn at googlemail.com> schreef in bericht
>> news:mailman.360.1209537877.12834.python-list at python.org...
>>>
>>> So just for completion, the solution is:
>>>
>>>>>> chr(ord('a') + 1)
>>> 'b'
>>
>> thanks :) I'm a beginner and I was expecting this to be a member of
>> string so I couldnt find it anywhere in the docs.
>
> And that's a very reasonable place to search; I think chr and ord are
> builtin functions (and not str methods) just by an historical
> accident.  (Or is there any other reason? what's wrong with "a".ord()
> or  str.from_ordinal(65))?


Not a reason, but doesn't ord() word with unicode as well?

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Arnaud