Converting to ascii?

[Thekid]

How do you go about converting something to ASCII using python? I have an example below of some randomly generated text that would need converted:

96,114,101,106,60,
Shift: 27

I don't know where to begin with this....

[ilikepython]

How do you go about converting something to ASCII using python? I have an example below of some randomly generated text that would need converted:

96,114,101,106,60,
Shift: 27

I don't know where to begin with this....

Try the built in functions ord() and chr().

[bvdet]

How do you go about converting something to ASCII using python? I have an example below of some randomly generated text that would need converted:

96,114,101,106,60,
Shift: 27

I don't know where to begin with this....

Use chr() to convert an integer in the range 0 to 255 to the equivalent ascii character.

>>> for item in [96,114,101,106,60,27]:
...     print chr(item)
...     
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[WhiteRider]

Use chr() to convert an integer in the range 0 to 255 to the equivalent ascii character.

>>> for item in [96,114,101,106,60,27]:
...     print chr(item)
...     
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Is there a way to get the number value of a character?

[ilikepython]

Is there a way to get the number value of a character?

Yes, using the ord() function.

[ghostdog74]

another way

''.join([ "%c" % i for i in [96,114,41,42] ])
 

[bartonc]

another way

''.join([ "%c" % i for i in [96,114,41,42] ])
 

Or, slightly more efficient (no temporary lists) using a generator and a tuple:

''.join("%c" % i for i in (96,114,41,42))

[Thekid]

Thank you all for your replies, but what about something like this:

Generated String: 65$65$85$86$80$67$87$94$90$68$88$70$57$80$107$
Shift: 20

I want to take that string and print out the decoded ascii, also using shifts. I
believe the shifts are from 0-30?? chr() and ord() don't seem to work with symbols in the string and the strings are randomly generated so they vary each time.

[bvdet]

Thank you all for your replies, but what about something like this:

Generated String: 65$65$85$86$80$67$87$94$90$68$88$70$57$80$107$
Shift: 20

I want to take that string and print out the decoded ascii, also using shifts. I
believe the shifts are from 0-30?? chr() and ord() don't seem to work with symbols in the string and the strings are randomly generated so they vary each time.

s = '65$65$85$86$80$67$87$94$90$68$88$70$57$80$107$'
 
print ''.join([chr(int(i)) for i in s.split('$') if i != ''])

>>> AAUVPCW^ZDXF9Pk
>>>

I do not understand what you want to do with the 'shift' number.

[Thekid]

"This string was randomly generated. It will not be recognizable text. You have 3 seconds to take the information from the website, and apply that to your algorithm.

Generated String: 73"51"92"51"92"81"66"87"71"48"61"62"76"87"95"

Shift: 15"

 
url = 'http://www.websitehere.php'
strSession = 'PHPSESSID=<cookiehere>' 
dicHeaders = {'COOKIE': strSession}
req = urllib2.Request(url, None, dicHeaders)
f = urllib2.urlopen(req)
strContext = f.read()
 

I think the shift is either to subtract or add to the ordinals of the characters, if that makes any sense........

.join(chr(ord(c)15) for c in original_string)