Python ascii() Method - Python Library Function

In this tutorial, we are going to have a look at python's ascii() library method that returns a readable version of any object. This is a very simple and easy to learn function which can be very useful at times.

The ascii() method in python returns a string containing printable representation (readable version) of an object (String, Tuple, List etc.). And all the non-ascii characters in the string are replaced using escape characters.

For example, ë is converted to \xeb by the ascii() method.

Syntax:

ascii(object)

# object can be String, Dictionary, List, Tuple etc.

An important point to note here is that this method takes only one parameter i.e it can be String or a Tuple or a List or any other object.

Lets see some more examples for this function with different types of objects.

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1. Working with Strings

For the example below, we have added a few special characters to our string,

str = "S T Û D Y T Ó Ñ I G H T"
print (ascii(str))

Output:

'S T \xdb D Y T \xd3 \xd1 I G H T'

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2. Working with Lists

For the example below, we have added a few special characters to our list,

list1 = ['Á', 'Ê', 'Õ', 'Ü']
print (ascii(list1))

Output:

['\xc1', '\xca', '\xd5', '\xdc']

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Conclusion:

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