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Recipe 65117: Converting between ASCII numbers and characters

You want to get the ASCII number of a character, or you want to get the character given by an ASCII number.

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# Get the ASCII number of a character
number = ord(char)

# Get the character given by an ASCII number
char = chr(number)

Discussion

For Unicode characters the builtin functions ord() and unichr() can be used.

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