[Tutor] ASCII characters

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Tue May 24 19:46:36 CEST 2005


John Carmona wrote:
> Thanks Kent for the reply, I am actually having trouble to find the 
> solution of the following exercise:
> 
> ## Write a for loop that prints the ASCII code of each character in a 
> string name S.##
> 
> I am ok with the for loop, put I don't know how get to print the ASCII 
> code of each character with a string (I also know how to use the String).

You need the ord() function and maybe hex() also:
  >>> ord('s')
115
  >>> hex(ord('s'))
'0x73'

Kent



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