Qian Xu wrote: > why the code > print len(u"»test«") > returns 8 instead of 6?
You may have declared an encoding that differs from the one your editor actually uses, e. g. # -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*- print len(u"»test«") whereas your editor writes UTF-8. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
