How can I convert a character to a integer in Python, and viceversa?

Question

I want to get, given a character, its ascii value.

For example, for the character 'a', I want to get 97, and viceversa.

Thanks,
Manuel

Answer 1

ord and chr

Answer 2

>>> ord('a')
97
>>> chr(97)
'a'

Answer 3

Use chr() and ord():

>>> chr(97)
'a'
>>> ord('a')
97

Answer 4

The question has been answered but I think this reference is a good thing to keep note of. http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html