Convert string to ASCII value python

Question

How would you convert a string to ASCII values?

For example, \"hi\" would return 104105.

I can individually do ord(\'h\') and ord(\'i\'), but it\'s going to

Answer 1

Here is a pretty concise way to perform the concatenation:

>>> s = "hello world"
>>> ''.join(str(ord(c)) for c in s)
'10410110810811132119111114108100'

And a sort of fun alternative:

>>> '%d'*len(s) % tuple(map(ord, s))
'10410110810811132119111114108100'