Today our in-built function is chr() which is useful for converting an ASCII value to it’s corresponding character.

Need of chr() function in Python:

Some times it requires to convert an ASCII value to it’s corsponding character and this in-built function will give python this capability.

Python chr function Syntax:

	chr(number)

Examples: Let us start with chr() function with some examples and see how we can use them in Python coding.

Example1: Convert an ASCII value to it’s corresponding character.

	>>> chr(97)

Output:

	'a' >>>

Example2: Convert a string to an ASCII values.

	>>>list_ascii=[72, 101, 108, 108, 111, 32, 87, 111, 114, 108, 100] >>> for i in list_ascii: ... print chr(i) ...

Output:

	H

	e

	l

	l

	o

        W

	o

	r

	l

	d

	>>>


Example3: Not satisfied with the output and want to convert an ASCII to list of it’s corresponding characters? Use following code

	>>>list_ascii=[72, 101, 108, 108, 111, 32, 87, 111, 114, 108, 100]

	>>> list_char=[chr(i) for i in list_ascii]

	>>> print list_char['H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ' ', 'W', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd']

	>>> str1=''.join(list_char)

	>>> print str1 Hello World

Related functions: chr(), int()

Complete python built-in function list.

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