On Sat, 9 Mar 2002 21:34:26 -0000, Nick <nick at nick8325.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > How do you get the ordinal value (ASCII) of a character? For example, to > make a ROT13 program. > > >>> ord('a') 97 >>> 'abcdef'.encode('rot13') 'nopqrs' [the second one requires 2.2]