How to covert ASCII to integer in Python?

[Skonieczny, Chris]

YOU SHOULD REMOVE or CORRECT YOUR POST here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2007-February/427841.html

It is not true - eg. try :
a='P' # P is ASCII , isn't it ?
b=int(a)
and what you will get ? An error !!!

Or probably you yourself should - quote :
"You probably should go through the tutorial ASAP that is located here:

http://docs.python.org/tut/ "

 

[Philipp Pagel]

YOU SHOULD REMOVE or CORRECT YOUR POST here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2007-February/427841.html

It is not true - eg. try :
a='P' # P is ASCII , isn't it ?
b=int(a)
and what you will get ? An error !!!

'P' is obviously not an ASCII representation of a number.
What did you expect? The closest number by visual appearance?

cu
Philipp

 

[Mensanator]

'P' is obviously not an ASCII representation of a number.

It is in base 36.

 

[Philipp Pagel]

It is in base 36.

Sure, but if that was the OP's intent he would most likely have
mentioned it...

As others have already guessed, it's most likely somethink like ord() he
was after.

cu
Philipp