Python ascii() method is a built-in method. It returns string representation of an object and escape the non-ASCII characters in the string by using \x, \u or \U escapes.
Basically, It returns a readable string version of an object by replacing non-ASCII characters.
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| object | (Required) This argument can be a list, string, integer etc. |
It returns string representation of an object by replacing all non-ASCII characters.
Let’s first understand, how this method works and what does it return?
As you can see, in the above example, first value is an ascii-char string and second value is non-ascii string. So, Python interpreter prints first value as it is but replaced second-one by the escape characters.