> >I assume the code snippets are exact copy/paste so this is not a typo >(like print data[51:] ...) - and I can't reproduce it here... even with >a string of 20381 characters. > > Yes, they were cut out. type(data) returns '<type str>'. The data was downloaded from a website, it starts with
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> Even if it had special control characters in it, I do not understand the effect (printing only the first 50 chars). But probably it is an issue with the terminal, since it is working fine on Windows. Les -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list