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

You can use a list comprehension:

>>> s = 'hi'
>>> [ord(c) for c in s]
[104, 105]

Answer 2

your description is rather confusing; directly concatenating the decimal values doesn't seem useful in most contexts. the following code will cast each letter to an 8-bit character, and THEN concatenate. this is how standard ASCII encoding works

def ASCII(s):
    x = 0
    for i in xrange(len(s)):
        x += ord(s[i])*2**(8 * (len(s) - i - 1))
    return x