How to turn a string into a list of integers?

[Joshua Landau]

On 3 September 2014 15:48,  <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:
>> >>> [ord(c) for c in "This is a string"]
>> [84, 104, 105, 115, 32, 105, 115, 32, 97, 32, 115, 116, 114, 105, 110, 103]
>>
>> There are other ways, but you have to describe the use case and your Python
>> version for us to recommend the most appropriate.
>>
> That looks OK to me.  It's just for outputting a string to the block
> write command in python-smbus which expects an integer array.

Just be careful about Unicode characters.