On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > I think you are using "from __future__ import unicode_literals". > Otherwise, that cannot happen in Python 2.x. >
Alas, not true. >>> sys.version '2.7.4 (default, Apr 6 2013, 19:54:46) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]' >>> sys.maxunicode 65535 >>> assert 'Straße'[4] == 'ß' >>> list('Straße') ['S', 't', 'r', 'a', '\xdf', 'e'] That's Windows XP. Presumably Latin-1 (or CP-1252, they both have that char at 0xDF). He happens to be correct, *as long as the source code encoding matches the output encoding and is one that uses 0xDF to mean U+00DF*. Otherwise, he's not. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list