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?): > > py> b = '\xb6' > py> b[0] > '\xb6' > py> b[0][0] > '\xb6'
Maybe this clarifies things? >>> b='a' >>> b[0] 'a' >>> b[0][0] 'a' >>> b[0] == b True Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list