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pythonlistascii
RoadRunner
RoadRunner

Reputation: 26315

Number to ASCII String Converter

I am trying split an integer into a list and convert every element into it's ASCII character. I want something like this:

    integer = 97097114103104
    int_list = [97, 97, 114, 103, 104]

    chr(int_list[0]) = 'a'
    chr(int_list[1]) = 'a'
    chr(int_list[2]) = 'r'
    chr(int_list[3]) = 'g'
    chr(int_list[4]) = 'h'

    ascii_char = 'aargh'

Is there a way I can do this? I want it to work for any number such as '65066066065', which will return 'ABBA', or '70', which will return 'F'. The issue I'm having is that I want to split the integers into the right numbers.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1589

Answers (3)

Bhargav Rao
Bhargav Rao

Reputation: 52071

Another way can be using textwrap. 

>>> import textwrap
>>> integer = 97097114103104
>>> temp = str(integer) 
>>> temp = '0'+temp if len(temp)%3==2 else temp
>>> [chr(int(i)) for i in textwrap.wrap(temp,3)]
['a', 'a', 'r', 'g', 'h']

And for your other example

>>> import textwrap
>>> integer = 65066066065
>>> temp = str(integer) 
>>> temp = '0'+temp if len(temp)%3==2 else temp
>>> [chr(int(i)) for i in textwrap.wrap(temp,3)]
['A', 'B', 'B', 'A']

For integer = 102103

>>> import textwrap
>>> integer = 102103 
>>> temp = str(integer) 
>>> temp = '0'+temp if len(temp)%3==1 else temp
>>> [chr(int(i)) for i in textwrap.wrap(temp,3)]
['f', 'g']

If you want to make the padding of zeroes "fool-proof" you can use zfill as in 

temp = temp.zfill((1+len(temp)/3)*3)

Upvotes: 2

Tim Seed
Tim Seed

Reputation: 5279

How about something like this

integer = 97097114103104
#Add leaving 0 as a string
data='0'+str(integer)
d=[ chr(int(data[start:start+3])) for start in range(0,len(data),3)]

Yields 

['a', 'a', 'r', 'g', 'h']

Upvotes: 1

Efi Weiss
Efi Weiss

Reputation: 650

It seems that you take the decimal ascii values, so 3 digits are a char. Using x mod 1000, would give you the last three digits of the number. iterate on the number. Example code:

integer = 97097114103104
ascii_num = ''
while integer > 0:
    ascii_num += chr(integer % 1000)
    integer /= 1000
print ascii_num[::-1] #to Reverse the string

Upvotes: 3

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