many_years_after wrote: > Well, people may input from keyboard. They input some Chinese > characters, then, I want to create a number. The same number will be > created if they input the same Chinese characters.
assuming you mean "code point" rather than "ASCII code" (ASCII is a specific encoding that *doesn't* include Chinese characters), "ord" is what you want: char = read_from_some_input_device() code = ord(char) see: http://pyref.infogami.com/ord </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list