code: def multi_char_literal(chars):
      """Emulates character integer literals in C. Given a string "abc",
      returns the value of the C single-quoted literal 'abc'.
      """
      num = 0
      for index, char in enumerate(chars):
          shift = (len(chars) - index - 1) * 8
          num |= ord(char) << shift
      return num
  
imports: import copy
  import ctypes
  import ctypes.util
  import os
  import sys
  from .exceptions import DecodeError
  from .base import AudioFile
label_desc: Use image node_id 2 for calling a global function with example usage: multi_char_literal(chars) and returns: num