whats the easiest way of converting a character into its ascii equivalent in python? [duplicate]

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The method I have applied is mapping the characters in an array . Is there a library for it ?

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ord() — or are you asking for something entirely different?

Given a string of length one, return an integer representing the Unicode code point of the character when the argument is a unicode object, or the value of the byte when the argument is an 8-bit string. … This is the inverse of chr() for 8-bit strings and of unichr() for unicode objects.

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ord('a')

Displays the ascii value, assuming that's what you're asking. If you mean Unicode characters, then that's a bit more tricky - a mapping would be the best way to do it.