Dumb noob q: ASCII value of a character
Peter Hansen
peter at engcorp.com
Thu Feb 26 13:50:03 EST 2004
Steve Horsley wrote:
>
> 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
>
> I know the characters will be printable ASCII.
> But how do I get those ASCII character values from the characters???
> I can't seem to find it in the library reference
It's a good idea to read through all the builtin functions, as
documented in http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/built-in-funcs.html#built-in-funcs
and keep them in mind.
In this case, ord() (and it's inverse chr()) are what you want.
-Peter
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