* for char simply means characters in Python
string[index]
>>> s = "python"
>>> s[3]
'h'
>>> s[6]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
IndexError: string index out of range
>>> s[0]
'p'
>>> s[-1]
'n'
>>> s[-6]
'p'
>>> s[-7]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
IndexError: string index out of range
>>>
chr() Converts an integer to a character
ord() Converts a character to an integer
#check if a is uppercase,lowercase,other character or digits
a=int(input('enter'))
if chr(a)>'A' and chr(a)<'Z' : #here 'A' is 65 and 'Z' is 91
print('upper case',a,'and ascii code',chr(a))
elif chr(a)>'a' and chr(a)<'z' : # here 'a' is 97 and 'z' is 122
print('lower case',a, 'and ascii code is',chr(a))
elif chr(a)>'0' and chr(a)<'9' :# here '0' is 48 and '9' is 57
print('digits',a,'and ascii code is',chr(a))
else:
print('other special',a,'andcharacter ascii code ',chr(a))
there is no dataype as char in python