> It is my understanding that eval turns a string into a number and then I
> can do math operations on it.
Hi Kristinn,
No, no, that's not what it does. *grin*
Where did you read about eval() from? If you saw it in a beginner's
tutorial, tell us who the guilty party is so we can knock some sense into
that tutorial.
Don't use eval(): it's "unsafe" in the sense that it does something much
more than what one might expect. I won't say too much more about it at the
moment, but if you're interested, see the threads:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2001-September/008967.html
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2004-December/033828.html
for examples. Again, I have to say this again: don't use eval() unless
you really know what you're doing.
Anyway, I think you're looking for the ord() function:
http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-55
Its inverse is the chr() function:
http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-15
Good luck!
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