ord function Python

The python ord() function takes string argument of a single Unicode character and returns a number representing Unicode code point for the given Unicode character. This function is inverse of chr() for 8-bit strings and of unichr() for Unicode objects.

Syntax of ord()

ord(character)

Here, character is a single string of length 1.

Example of ord()

The given example shows the working of ord().

print("Code point of 4 : ",ord('4'))

print("Code point of A : ",ord('A'))

print("Code point of C : ",ord('C'))

print("Code point of $ : ",ord('$'))

print("Code point of & : ",ord('&'))

Output of the above code -

Code point of 4 :  52
Code point of A :  65
Code point of C :  67
Code point of $ :  36
Code point of & :  38

The length of string should be always one. If it isn't equivalent to 1, then it will raise TypeError error.

print("Code point of AB : ",ord('AB'))

print("Code point of 30 : ",ord('30'))

Output of the above code -

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\python37\Scripts\projects\test.py", line 1, in 
    print("Code point of AB : ",ord('AB'))
TypeError: ord() expected a character, but string of length 2 found

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