On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:34:45 +0300, Konstantinos Pachopoulos wrote: > Hi, > i have the following string s and the following code, which doesn't > successfully remove the "\", but sucessfully removes the "\\".
There is no \\ in the string; there's one \ , which gets succesfully removed. > >>> s="Sad\\asd\asd" When you write a string in the source code \\ gets changed to \ and \a gets changed to "ASCII Bell (BEL)" (that's what the docs say), which is a (non-printable) control code that is supposed to make the terminal beep. > >>> newS="" > >>> for i in s: > ... if i!="\\": Here, your test is true if i is not \ > ... newS=newS+i > ... > >>> newS > 'Sadasd\x07sd' And here, you have a string containing no backslashes, but containing a character with ASCII code 7; it turns out that ASCII code 7 is the "ASCII Bell", i.e., the character that you added to the string when you wrote '\a'. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
