Gleb Belov wrote: > Hey everyone! I'm quite new to Python and equally new to newsgroups in > general, so apologies if this makes no sense. > > Basically, I was just exploring Python "arrays" on my own, since I > come from C++. What I did was: >>>> words = ["Hi!", "What's up?", "Bye!"] >>>> print words > ['Hi!', "What's up?", 'Bye!'] > > I have two questions: > 1) Is it possible and if so, how do I access each individual element? > Are there any indexes and what is the syntax?
For the first element: >>> words[0] > 2) I just noticed that the first and the last words in the output are > enclosed in single quotes, and the middle one is enclosed in double > quotes. Is it a bug? If not, why does the output work that way? The output is valid python code. To represent with single quotes for the second item, there would have to be a \ escape character for the apostrophe. -- Stephen Fairchild -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
