How can I convert a character to a integer in Python, and viceversa?

python integer char type-conversion

I want to get, given a character, its ASCII value.

For example, for the character a, I want to get 97, and vice versa.

Adam Rosenfield

>>> chr(97)
'a'
>>> ord('a')
97

dwc

>>> ord('a')
97
>>> chr(97)
'a'

You posted this answer 1 minute before the other guy yet still missed out on the 500+ upvotes...

that is because the latter got selected as the answer lol

Such is life. I upvoted this one as well, but I doubt he still cares 11 years later.

the latter one has documentation links)

rmmh

ord and chr

My favorite part about this answer is that they inadvertently wrote a valid line of Python.

print ((ord and chr)(0O041))

Pjl

For long string you could use this.

 ''.join(map(str, map(ord, 'pantente')))

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