Laszlo Zsolt Nagy wrote: >I have a program with this code fragment: > > print len(data) > print data[:50] > raise SystemExit > >This prints: > >20381 ><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" > >But if I change 50 to 51 > > print len(data) > print data[:51] > raise SystemExit > >then it prints > >20381 > !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" > >After all, only the last 50 bytes are printed. The string is the same >(length 20381) in both cases. > > Hmm, I checked on Windows now and it is working. But it is bad on FreeBSD/Python 2.4.1 Very strange. len(data[:100]) returns 100, but if I try to print it, only the first 50 characters printed.
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