In this post we will learn how to print ASCII value in python using simple python program.
What is ASCII value/code?
ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
As we know that computer does not understand human language and it stores data in the form of 0 and 1. Therefore ASCII value is used to convert the characters and symbols into numeric value and then this numeric value is further easily converted in to 0, 1 format.
All the characters and symbols present in the computer are assigned numeric values from 0-255.
Program to Print ASCII Value in Python
Below program is about how to print ASCII value in Python using ord() Method.
#Python program to find the ASCII value of characters c = input("Enter the character\n") v = ord(c) print("The ASCII value of "+ c +" is", v )
Output:
Enter the character b The ASCII value of b is 98
What is ord() Method?
ord() method is an in-built function in python which is used to convert a character into its Unicode value.