[Tutor] ASCII characters

[Danny Yoo]

On Tue, 24 May 2005, Kent Johnson wrote:

> D. Hartley wrote:
> > I have a question: what is the "opposite" of hex()? (i.e., like ord
> > and chr).  If I have
> >
> > '0x73', how can I get back to 115 or s?
>
> I don't know a really clean way to do this because '0x73' is not a legal
> input value for int().


int() needs a little bit more hinting in this case: it can take in a
seceond parameter whose value is the "base".  For example:

######
>>> int('001010101001', 2)
681
>>> int('0x73', 16)
115
######


Bets of wishes!