python "incrementing" a character string?

Question

I know in java, if you have a char variable, you could do the following:

char a = 'a'
a = a + 1
System.out.println(a)

This would print 'b'. I don't know the exact name of what this is, but is there any way to do this in python?

Answer 1

You could use ord and chr :

print(chr(ord('a')+1))
# b

More information about ord and chr.