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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex | 13 |
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex index 84b0ed5..feac346 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex @@ -716,11 +716,16 @@ class C: \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{ord}{c} - Return the \ASCII{} value of a string of one character or a Unicode - character. E.g., \code{ord('a')} returns the integer \code{97}, + Given a string of length one, return an integer representing the + Unicode code point of the character when the argument is a unicode object, + or the value of the byte when the argument is an 8-bit string. + For example, \code{ord('a')} returns the integer \code{97}, \code{ord(u'\e u2020')} returns \code{8224}. This is the inverse of - \function{chr()} for strings and of \function{unichr()} for Unicode - characters. + \function{chr()} for 8-bit strings and of \function{unichr()} for unicode + objects. If a unicode argument is given and Python was built with + UCS2 Unicode, then the character's code point must be in the range + [0..65535] inclusive; otherwise the string length is two, and a + \exception{TypeError} will be raised. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{pow}{x, y\optional{, z}} |