On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Technically, it's not ASCII, since ASCII only knows about bytes \x00 > through \x7F (decimal 0 through 127). That's why it isn't correct to > describe Python bytes strings as "ASCII strings". They're byte strings > that happen to be displayed as ASCII-plus-other-stuff.
The line of code is itself entirely ASCII. The sequence REVERSE SOLIDUS, LATIN SMALL LETTER X, LATIN SMALL LETTER B, DIGIT SIX is four Unicode characters that are in the ASCII set. That Python interprets them as representing the byte value 182 doesn't change that; the line of code *is* ASCII. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
