import re
s = "Python is a general-purpose programming language"
s = re.sub(r'\s+', '', s)
s = [ord(ch) for ch in s]
print(s)
'''
run:
[80, 121, 116, 104, 111, 110, 105, 115, 97, 103, 101, 110, 101, 114, 97, 108, 45, 112, 117, 114, 112, 111, 115, 101, 112, 114, 111, 103, 114, 97, 109, 109, 105, 110, 103, 108, 97, 110, 103, 117, 97, 103, 101]
'''