How to get the ASCII value of a character in Python

Function ord()  is used to get int ASCII value of any character in Python.

>>> ord('a')
97

To get back the character from any given int function chr() is used.

>>> chr(97)
'a'
>>> chr(ord('a') + 3)
'd'
>>>

If you are using UTF-8 charcters, you need to pass it a unicode otherwise, it will throw a TypeError error.

>>> ord(u'あ')
12354