I am new to python language and most of my python programming has been done with IronPython.
I was looking at the source of markupbase.py which is included with Python 2.4 and came across the following line of code:- if rawdata[j:j+1] == '--': #comment i was confused because based on my understanding of the slicing syntax, rawdata[j:j+1] will either yield a string with ONE character or an empty string, therefore this boolean comparison will always be False because we are checking if it will be equal to a string with 2 characters! am I missing something here ? thank you in advance for educating me. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
