How to convert a list into ASCII

This worked well for me.

>>> L = [104, 101, 108, 108, 111, 44, 32, 119, 111, 114, 108, 100]
>>> print [ chr(x) for x in L]
['h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ',', ' ', 'w', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd']

L = ['h','e','l','l','o']

print(list(map(ord,L)))
#output : [104, 101, 108, 108, 111]

print(list(map(str,map(ord,L))))
#output : ['104', '101', '108', '108', '111']

This works the other way round:

L = ['h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ',', ' ', 'w', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd']
L = [ord(x) for x in L]
print(L)

output:

[104, 101, 108, 108, 111, 44, 32, 119, 111, 114, 108, 100]

This is a much simpler solution:

L = ['h','e','l','l','o']
changer = [ord(x) for x in L]
print(changer)

Using the function ord()

From here

You can try:

L = ['h','e','l','l','o']
for x in range(len(L)):
     L[x] = ord(L[x])
print(L)

Ouput:

[104,101,108,108,111]

EDIT:

ord() allows you to convert from char to ASCII whereas chr() allows you to do the opposite

message = list(input("Message: "))
message = [ord(x) for x in message]
print(message)

Here is my solution for this. Hope this helps! Output depends on your input, but in general it will follow the form

[x, y, z]