Laszlo Zsolt Nagy wrote: > 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. > > Les
Is 'data' a Unicode string, or do you have some terminal control charachters in the string? Most printable ASCII charachters are between 32 and 126. What does this print?: print [i for (i,c) in enumerate(data) if not (32 <= ord(c) <= 126)] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
