On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 03:45:29 -0500, Corey Richardson wrote: > On 02/25/2011 03:39 AM, Corey Richardson wrote: >> Also, if one understands how a unicode byte looks like in a string, >> it's pretty easy to understand, and looks a hell of a lot clearer than >> a bunch of chr()'s without any space between. That's just my two cents. > > Err..not a unicode byte, but it's some sort of escape sequence that > represents a byte. Not sure what it's called, to be honest.
An escape sequence :) Specifically, a hexadecimal escape. There are also octal escapes and character escapes like \n for newline. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list