whats the easiest way of converting a character into its ascii equivalent in python?

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The method I have applied is mapping the characters in an array . Is there a library for it ?

You mean transforming "extended" characters into their nearest ASCII representation, i. e. `à` to `a`, `Ä` to `Ae` (or `AE`?) and `ß` to `ss`? This is a hard problem. — Tim Pietzcker, Feb 08 '11 at 13:33

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ord() — or are you asking for something entirely different?

Given a string of length one, return an integer representing the Unicode code point of the character when the argument is a unicode object, or the value of the byte when the argument is an 8-bit string. … This is the inverse of chr() for 8-bit strings and of unichr() for unicode objects.

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jensgram

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chr() is the reverse, by the way. – jokoon Feb 08 '11 at 13:56
@gokoon Yup, the excerpt from the docs says the same :) – jensgram Feb 08 '11 at 14:25

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 08 '11 at 13:33

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ord('a')

Displays the ascii value, assuming that's what you're asking. If you mean Unicode characters, then that's a bit more tricky - a mapping would be the best way to do it.

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whats the easiest way of converting a character into its ascii equivalent in python?

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