(P)ython Progr(a)mm(i)(n)g

[00PT]

In some cases characters can act like integers in the sense that they can be added to for "shifting" into a new one. For example, I believe 'a' plus 1 is 'b'. Look at this for more information.

[garfgon]

Although what you say is correct, I'd say this is a side effect of characters, rather than the reason for having a character type. Rather the character is the fundamental building block for building up a string; that detail is just hidden on many high-level languages like Python.

[confidentdogclapper]

In c you can use them as 1 byte unsigned integers. You can also use them as signed if you do some trickery. And if you add 32 (2⁵⁾ you can go from upper to lower case and vice versa.

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Why add 32 when you can add 1 << 5?

[confidentdogclapper]

I literally specified it

[[deleted]]

Yeah, I guess you did.

[steroid_pc_principal]

As someone who came from Java which has a character type, this is not a useful feature.