Greetings Pythonistas. I have recently discovered a strange anomoly with string.replace. It seemingly, randomly does not deal with characters of ordinal value > 127. I ran into this problem while downloading auction web pages from ebay and trying to replace the "\xa0" (dec 160, nbsp char in iso-8859-1) in the string I got from urllib2. Yet today, all is fine, no problems whatsoever. Sadly, I did not save the exact error message, but I believe it was a ValueError thrown on string.replace and the message was something to the effect "character value not within range(128).
Some googling seemed to indicate other people have reported similar troubles: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-July/391617.html Anyone have any enlightening advice for me? -- Sam Peterson skpeterson At nospam ucdavis.edu "if programmers were paid to remove code instead of adding it, software would be much better" -- unknown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
