PFOTD: Python ord() function examples

Today our inbuilt function is ord() which is useful for converting a single character to its corresponding ASCII value.

Need of ord() function in Python:

Some times it is require to convert a string to unicode ASCII value and this inbuilt function will give python this capability.

ord() function syntax:

ord('char')

Examples: Let us start with ord() function with some examples and see how we can use them in Python coding.

Example1: Convert a char to its corresponding ascii value.

>>> ord('a')

Output:

97

>>>

Example2: Convert a string to ascii values.

>>> string='Hello World'

>>> for i in string:

... print ord(i)

...

Output:

72

101

108

108

111

32

87

111

114

108

100

Example3: Not satesfied with the output and want to convert a string to list of its corsponding ascii vlaues? use following code

>>> string='Hello World'

>>> list_ascii=[ord(i) for i in string]

>>> print list_ascii

Output:

[72, 101, 108, 108, 111, 32, 87, 111, 114, 108, 100]

Related functions: chr(), int()