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V. Raman
V. Raman

Reputation: 221

Python 2 - ord() returning an incorrect value

This is my text file (sample.txt).

É
Â
Ê
Î
Ç
Ô
È
Û
Ï
Ë
À
Ù
Ü

Now when I invoke python script to read the ord() values of those characters I always receive 195. Why is that?

file = open("C:\sample.txt", "r")
for line in file:
    print ord(line[0])
file.close()

ord() value of 195 is this character: Ã and it is not present in any of the above-mentioned lines by me at all. I am expecting within an output of the following sequence for:

201, 194, 202, 206, 199, 212, 200, 219, 207, 203, 192, 217, 220.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 362

Answers (1)

xilpex
xilpex

Reputation: 3237

You should switch to python 3; It fixes the problem:

file = open("sample.txt", "r")
for line in file:
    print(ord(line[0]))
file.close()

This prints:

201
194
202
206
199
212
200
219
207
203
192
217
220

Just like expected.

Upvotes: 1

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