I am new to python, but i am quite curious about the following.
print '\378'
which should not work because \377 is the max. then it displays two characters (an 8 and a heart in my case...). What else does'nt quite make sense is that if this is an octal why is an 8 accepted?
It would appear that the parser reads \377 as a single character and \378 as two (\37 and the "8" character). I'm somewhat surprised you're seeing a heart and an 8. What OS/language combination are you using? If you're using English Windows you can get a heart and an "8" with "print '\38'".
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