chr() in Python

In Python, the chr() function is a built-in function that returns a string representing a character whose Unicode code point is the integer specified. It takes an integer argument and returns the corresponding Unicode character.

Example:

Output:

ASCII Value of 97 is:  a

Python chr() Function Syntax

Syntax: chr(num)

• num: an Unicode code integer

Return: Returns str

chr() Function in Python Example

Here, we are going to use Python chr() methods to get the string of Unicode.

chr() in Python

In this example, we are printing Geeks for Geeks with the chr() in Python.

Output:

G e e k s   f o r   G e e k s

Get the ASCII Value of Integers in Python

In this example, we are Printing characters for each Unicode integer in the numbers list.

Output :

Character of ASCII value 17 is  ◄
Character of ASCII value 38 is  &
Character of ASCII value 79 is  O

Python chr() to Print Currency Symbol

In this example, we are printing Euro with the chr() in Python.

Output :

€

Python Program to Print Emojis

In this example, we are printing smiley with the chr() in Python.

Output :

????

Print ASCII Values From 0 to 255 In Python

In this example, we are generating a sequence of integers from 0 to 255.

Output :

[‘\x00’, ‘\x01’, ‘\x02’, ‘\x03’, ‘\x04’, ‘\x05’, ‘\x06’, ‘\x07’, ‘\x08’, ‘\t’, ‘\n’, ‘\x0b’, ‘\x0c’, ‘\r’, ‘\x0e’, ‘\x0f’, ‘\x10’, ‘\x11’, ‘\x12’, ‘\x13’, ‘\x14’, ‘\x15’, ‘\x16’, ‘\x17’, ‘\x18’, ‘\x19’, ‘\x1a’, ‘\x1b’, ‘\x1c’, ‘\x1d’, ‘\x1e’, ‘\x1f’, ‘ ‘, ‘!’, ‘”‘, ‘#’, ‘$’, ‘%’, ‘&’, “‘”, ‘(‘, ‘)’, ‘*’, ‘+’, ‘,’, ‘-‘, ‘.’, ‘/’, ‘0’, ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’, ‘5’, ‘6’, ‘7’, ‘8’, ‘9’, ‘:’, ‘;’, ‘<‘, ‘=’, ‘>’, ‘?’, ‘@’, ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’, ‘E’, ‘F’, ‘G’, ‘H’, ‘I’, ‘J’, ‘K’, ‘L’, ‘M’, ‘N’, ‘O’, ‘P’, ‘Q’, ‘R’, ‘S’, ‘T’, ‘U’, ‘V’, ‘W’, ‘X’, ‘Y’, ‘Z’, ‘[‘, ‘\\’, ‘]’, ‘^’, ‘_’, ‘`’, ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, ‘d’, ‘e’, ‘f’, ‘g’, ‘h’, ‘i’, ‘j’, ‘k’, ‘l’, ‘m’, ‘n’, ‘o’, ‘p’, ‘q’, ‘r’, ‘s’, ‘t’, ‘u’, ‘v’, ‘w’, ‘x’, ‘y’, ‘z’, ‘{‘, ‘|’, ‘}’, ‘~’, ‘\x7f’, ‘\x80’, ‘\x81’, ‘\x82’, ‘\x83’, ‘\x84’, ‘\x85’, ‘\x86’, ‘\x87’, ‘\x88’, ‘\x89’, ‘\x8a’, ‘\x8b’, ‘\x8c’, ‘\x8d’, ‘\x8e’, ‘\x8f’, ‘\x90’, ‘\x91’, ‘\x92’, ‘\x93’, ‘\x94’, ‘\x95’, ‘\x96’, ‘\x97’, ‘\x98’, ‘\x99’, ‘\x9a’, ‘\x9b’, ‘\x9c’, ‘\x9d’, ‘\x9e’, ‘\x9f’, ‘\xa0’, ‘¡’, ‘¢’, ‘£’, ‘¤’, ‘¥’, ‘¦’, ‘§’, ‘¨’, ‘©’, ‘ª’, ‘«’, ‘¬’, ‘\xad’, ‘®’, ‘¯’, ‘°’, ‘±’, ‘²’, ‘³’, ‘´’, ‘µ’, ‘¶’, ‘·’, ‘¸’, ‘¹’, ‘º’, ‘»’, ‘¼’, ‘½’, ‘¾’, ‘¿’, ‘À’, ‘Á’, ‘Â’, ‘Ã’, ‘Ä’, ‘Å’, ‘Æ’, ‘Ç’, ‘È’, ‘É’, ‘Ê’, ‘Ë’, ‘Ì’, ‘Í’, ‘Î’, ‘Ï’, ‘Ð’, ‘Ñ’, ‘Ò’, ‘Ó’, ‘Ô’, ‘Õ’, ‘Ö’, ‘×’, ‘Ø’, ‘Ù’, ‘Ú’, ‘Û’, ‘Ü’, ‘Ý’, ‘Þ’, ‘ß’, ‘à’, ‘á’, ‘â’, ‘ã’, ‘ä’, ‘å’, ‘æ’, ‘ç’, ‘è’, ‘é’, ‘ê’, ‘ë’, ‘ì’, ‘í’, ‘î’, ‘ï’, ‘ð’, ‘ñ’, ‘ò’, ‘ó’, ‘ô’, ‘õ’, ‘ö’, ‘÷’, ‘ø’, ‘ù’, ‘ú’, ‘û’, ‘ü’, ‘ý’, ‘þ’, ‘ÿ’]

What happens if we give something out of range?

Output :

No Output

We won’t get any output and the compiler will throw an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/484c76fb455a624cc137946a244a9aa5.py", line 1, in 
    print(chr(400))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character 
'\u0190' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)