[Tutor] conversion confusion

[Vicki Stanfield]

I am trying to OR two values. These values are the hex values minus the 0x
part. If I had an ASCII 'm' for instance, I would OR the value 6D to the
existing seed value. When I try this, I get an error.

CRCval=ord(value2add) ^ ord(seed)

because the value2add is 2 characters rather than one. Is there an
established function to take a multi-character string and convert it to a
numeric value that works with OR?

--vicki