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Find ASCII Value of a Character in Python

ord('A') is 65. Type two characters and this program refuses.

BeginnerBasic Python ProgramsExample 4 of 25
find-ascii-value-of-a-character.py
1# Program to find the ASCII value of a character
2

3ch = input("Enter a character: ")
4

5if len(ch) != 1:
6    print("Please enter exactly one character.")
7else:
8    print("The ASCII value of", ch, "is", ord(ch))

Output

Enter a character: A
The ASCII value of A is 65

In this one

  • ord('A') → 65, ord('a') → 97
  • input() can be more than one character. Check len.

What's going on

ord('A') is 65. ord('a') is 97. Same function, Unicode code point — for English letters it matches old ASCII.

len(ch) != 1 is there because input() lets people type AB and then you are debugging a string, not a character.

ord('') crashes. Empty input is the other footgun.

After this program

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