How to get the ASCII value of a character

Matt picture Matt · Oct 22, 2008 · Viewed 1.4M times · Source

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

Answer

Matt J picture Matt J · Oct 22, 2008

From here:

function ord() would get 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 is 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.


ord() - Python 3.6.5rc1 documentation

ord() - Python 2.7.14 documentation