What is the opposite of python's ord() function?

Question:

I found out about Python’s ord() function which returns corresponding Unicode codepoint value. But what is the opposite function, i.e. get char value by int?

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Asked By: dkol

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Answers:

chr() is what you’re looking for:

print chr(65) # will print "A"
Answered By: EvenLisle

ord(c)

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.
For example, ord(‘a’) returns the integer 97, ord(u’u2020′) returns
8224. This 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.

chr(i)

Return a string of one character whose ASCII code is the integer i.
For example, chr(97) returns the string ‘a’. This is the inverse of
ord(). The argument must be in the range [0..255], inclusive;
ValueError will be raised if i is outside that range. See also
unichr().

Answered By: PythonEnthusiast
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