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The ord () function in Python

The built-in ord () function in Python returns an integer representing the Unicode code of the specified character.

Author: Kareem Winters1 minutes read
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The built-in ord () function in Python returns an integer representing the Unicode code of the specified character.

Python's ord () function syntax

 ord(c) 

The ord () function is the reciprocal of the function chr ().

The parameter of ord () function

ord () has a unique parameter:

  1. c : is any string, any character.

Value returned from ord ()

Ord () returns an integer representing the Unicode code of the specified character.

For example

 # số nguyên print(ord('5')) # chữ cái print(ord('A')) # ký tự print(ord('$')) 

Run the program, the result is:

 53 65 36 

See also: Built-in Python functions

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