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
.