Get unicode code point of a character using Python

Question

In Python API, is there a way to extract the unicode code point of a single character?

Edit: In case it matters, I\'m using Python 2.7.

Answer 1

>>> ord(u"ć")
263
>>> u"café"[2]
u'f'
>>> u"café"[3]
u'\xe9'
>>> for c in u"café":
...     print repr(c), ord(c)
... 
u'c' 99
u'a' 97
u'f' 102
u'\xe9' 233