[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i know that those characters exist, the docs say that the server does > not want the special "ETX" and "STX" characters, but the 3 ascii > characters "STX" and "ENX" i am not sure why.
What do you bet the server software was written by someone who thought ASCII STX meant literally the characters "STX"? I've seen stupider things. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list