whats the easiest way of converting a character into its ascii equivalent in python?
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  <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
  <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/227459/ascii-value-of-a-character-in-python">ASCII value of a character in python</a>  </p>
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<p>The method I have applied is mapping the characters in an array . Is there a library for it ?</p>
