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The ascii() method returns a string containing a printable representation of an object. It escapes the non-ASCII characters in the string using \x, \u or \U escapes.
The syntax of ascii() is:
ascii(object)
1. ascii() Parameters
ascii() method takes an object (like: strings, list etc).
2. Return Value from ascii()
It returns a string containing a printable representation of an object.
For example, ö is changed to \xf6n, √ is changed to \u221a
The non-ASCII characters in the string are escaped using \x, \u or \U.
3. Example 1: How ascii() method works?
normalText = 'Python is interesting'
print(ascii(normalText))
otherText = 'Pythön is interesting'
print(ascii(otherText))
print('Pyth\xf6n is interesting')
Output
'Python is interesting' 'Pyth\xf6n is interesting' Pythön is interesting
4. More Examples
randomList = ['Python', 'Pythön', 5] print(ascii(randomList))
Output
['Python', 'Pyth\xf6n', 5]
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