May 24, 2011
2:47 p.m.
Nick Coghlan writes:
Still, I've come around to the point of view that the simplest and clearest way to write it is simply "ord('x')", and if that is in a time-critical inner loop, save the value in a named variable.
+1. Actually, I prefer the latter. I feel that the former is just a complicated and expensive magic number in almost all cases.