On Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:59:17 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > 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. ......^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Ah, so it is. Sorry, I got confused about what was being spoken about. Apologies to Dave for casting aspersions on his knowledge :-) -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
