Fredrik Lundh wrote: > "Blackbird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> [...] >>> >>>>>> a = 'I don\'t think so' >>>>>> print '%r' % a >>> "I don't think so" >>>>>> a = r'I don\'t think so' >>>>>> print "'%s'" % a >>> 'I don\'t think so' >> >> Excellent counterexample. Can something like this happen for other >> things than quotes? > >>>> a = '\377' >>>> print '%r' % a > '\xff' >>>> a = r'\377' >>>> print "'%s'" % a > '\377' > > I still recommend looking up %s and %r and str() and repr() in the > documentation. it's not hard to understand what they do, and that > approach works a bit better than cargo cult programming.
By "cargo cult programming", do you mean actually *running* the code? Noooo, no, no. I *write* code. I don't *run* code any longer. A long life has thought me that the awakenings you are in for, by running code, are rude and only rude. Blackbird -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
