How to Get the ASCII Value of a Character in Python?

Acquiring ASCII Values in Python

Question: How can I retrieve the ASCII value of a character and store it as an integer in Python?

Answer:

The ord() function provides the ASCII value of a character as an integer. If you wish to revert the conversion, the chr() function can be employed.

For example:

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

In Python 2, the unichr() function was also available for retrieving the Unicode character based on its ordinal value:

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

In Python 3, chr() can be used instead of unichr().

For further reference, you can refer to the following documentation:

• [ord() - Python 3.6.5rc1 documentation](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#ord)
• [ord() - Python 2.7.14 documentation](https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#ord)

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