PD wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to python, but i am quite curious about the following. > > suppose you had > > 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?
Because 8 isn't an octal digit, so it's not part of the escape sequence, but a separate character. It's just like print 'This string\47s escape sequence does not include the s.' Your example displays two characters because it is two characters: '\037' and '8'. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
