James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm very curious about what is going on here. I'm sure my curiosity has > something to do with ignorance of some fundamental concept of computer > science (maybe that 8 is just a vertical infinity?):
Python doesn't have a character type. A character is just a string of length 1. So 'a'[0] is the same as 'a'. Thus 'a'[0][0][0]...[0] is also the same as 'a'. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list