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David ------- Surf a wave to the future with a free tracfone http://cellphone.duneram.com/index.html >From: Laszlo Zsolt Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: python-list@python.org >Subject: Very dumb question >Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:39:29 +0200 >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. >Surprisingly, I can print more than 50 characters, this works: > >print "012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789A" > >I'm sure it is my mistake, but I don't know what am I doing wrong. Do >you have an idea? >Thanks, > > Les > >-- >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
