"codecraig" wrote: > so each character in the string is 1 byte? if so, can u point me to > somewhere that states that perhaps?
the documentation, perhaps? http://www.python.org/doc/ref/types.html Strings The items of a string are characters. There is no separate character type; a character is represented by a string of one item. Characters represent (at least) 8-bit bytes. The built-in functions chr() and ord() convert between characters and nonnegative integers representing the byte values. Bytes with the values 0-127 usually represent the corresponding ASCII values, but the interpretation of values is up to the program. The string data type is also used to represent arrays of bytes, e.g., to hold data read from a file. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
