ord() function in Python

Inbuilt ord() function in Python

Examples:

Input : a
Output : 97

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(‘€’) (Euro sign) returns 8364. 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.

If the string length is more then one, and a TypeError will be raised.

The syntax can be ord(“a”) or ord(‘a’), both will give same results.

# inbuilt function return an  
# integer representing the Unicode code 
value = ord("A") 
  
# writing in ' ' gives the same result 
value1 = ord('A') 
  
# prints the unicode value 
print value, value1 

Output:

65 65

Exceptions

1. TypeError : Raised when string length is more than 1.

# inbuilt function return an  
# integer representing the Unicode code 
# demonstrating exception 
  
# Raises Exception 
value1 = ord('AB') 
  
# prints the unicode value 
print (value1) 

Runtime Error :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/f988dfe667cdc9a8e5658464c87ccd18.py", line 6, in 
    value1 = ord('AB')
TypeError: ord() expected a character, but string of length 2 found

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