On Sunday, November 25, 2012 12:23:13 AM UTC+1, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > ... > Pardon? In ASCII (and encodings that share the first 128 positions), > > a TAB is x09. > > > > >>> def show(c): > > ... print "%r is 0x%2.2X" % (c, ord(c)) > > ... > > >>> show(raw_input()[0]) > > i > > 'i' is 0x69 > > >>> show(raw_input()[0]) > > > > '\t' is 0x09 > > >>> > > > > My "input" for the second was <ctrl-i> > > > > Typically, keyboard/console interfaces generate > > <ord-lowercase-letter> - 0x60 when the control key is held down. > > Lowercase "i" is 0x69; minuse 0x60 give 0x09, which is the TAB > > character. > > > > A GUI interface, however, may capture the combination for some other > > usage.
Thanks! I did not know that. Michael -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
