ord¶

Description¶

Returns an integer representing the code of the character.

Syntax¶

ord (character)

character: Required. A character.

Return Value¶

int

Time Complexity¶

#TODO

Remarks¶

This function is the inverse of chr() for 8-bit strings and of unichr() for unicode objects. If a unicode argument is given and Python was built with UCS2 Unicode, then the character’s code point must be in the range [0..65535] inclusive; otherwise the string length is two, and a TypeError will be raised.

Example 1¶

>>> ord('a')
97
>>> ord('A')
65

Example 2¶

>>> ord(u'a')
97
>>> ord(u'\u2020')
8224