On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 7:09 AM Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 03:29:37 -0000 (UTC), Bischoop <bisch...@vimart.net> > declaimed the following: > > >I wanted to learn about conversion string to Ascii. > >So I learn about binascii.b2a but because the output wasn't what I > >wanted got deeper and found out about ord(c) and actually that's what > >I'expected. > >So what's that binascii and why I cant convert ascii that I got from ord > >to string by using char, instead I'm getting some strings in weird > >coding. > > > > > >import binascii > >Ttext = b'This is a string' > >text2 = 'This is a string' > > Item: this is a Unicode string. Python Unicode strings are only 1-byte > per character IF all characters are in the 7-bit ASCII range. If you have > any extended characters (which would, say, be one byte in ISO-Latin-1) they > could turn the entire Unicode string into 2-byte per character (and really > expanded sets could be 3 or 4 bytes per character). >
Irrelevant - they're not "one byte per character" except in terms of memory usage, which isn't coming up here. When you call ord() on a character, you get the ordinal of that character, and the internal representation doesn't matter. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
