How to get the ASCII value of a character

Question

How do I get the ASCII value of a character as an int in Python?

Answer 1

From here:

The function ord() gets the int value of the char. And in case you want to convert back after playing with the number, function chr() does the trick.

>>> ord('a') 97 >>> chr(97) 'a' >>> chr(ord('a') + 3) 'd' >>> 

In Python 2, there was also the unichr function, returning the Unicode character whose ordinal is the unichr argument:

>>> unichr(97) u'a' >>> unichr(1234) u'\u04d2' 

In Python 3 you can use chr instead of unichr.

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ord() - Python 3.6.5rc1 documentation

ord() - Python 2.7.14 documentation