[Tutor] ASCII Conversion

[Russel Winder]

On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 07:33 +0200, Christian Witts wrote:
> [...]o with 
> `type(y) == int`, and to get the ASCII value of a character you can use 
> `ord` like `ord('a') == 97`. And how to avoid your ValueError with a bad 
> conversion, do your type checking before hand.

isinstance ( y , int ) 

preferred?

Violates EAFP obviously but...

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