On Aug 26, 12:59 am, Stephen Fairchild <someb...@somewhere.com> wrote: > 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
Oh, thank you! That makes sense! Should have thought of the escape character issue... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
