How to get the ASCII value of a character

Question

How do I get the ASCII value of a character as an int in Python?

Answer 1

ord(x) returns the Unicode of x.

Since Unicode is an extension of ASCII, ord will also work for all things encoded by ASCII. Note that the returned value is in decimal. If you want it in another base, you can use

bin(ord(x)) oct(ord(x)) hex(ord(x))

as you see fit.