How to Get the ASCII Value of a Character as an Int in Python

Using ord Function

The ord() function returns an integer representing the Unicode code point of that character.

To get the ASCII code of a character, you can use the ord() function.

Here is an example code:

#!/usr/bin/python3

print(ord('a'))
print(ord('€'))

# inverse
print(chr(97))

97
8364
a